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This is neat, but why is Facebook making it? I may be too used to working at startups, but it seems to me that "look Mom, SQL!" isn't nearly worth the cost of t
by brianpgordon 12y ago
This is neat, but why is Facebook making it? I may be too used to working at startups, but it seems to me that "look Mom, SQL!" isn't nearly worth the cost of the engineer hours it must have taken to bring this project to maturity.
I guess it does buy community goodwill to throw handfuls of money off the Facebook float...
- electrum 12y agoThis is built on SQLite virtual tables, so it didn't require writing a new SQL engine (which is a monumental task): http://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html http://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html
- karavelov 12y agoI guess because of the learning curve - everybody already knows SQL and the time spent to create SQL parser is balanced by the time of thousands people not needing to learn some new (most of the time badly designed, look to example MongoDB) query language.
- natrius 12y agoTools are top priority. You must read this: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-are-top-priority.html http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-a...