Well, ad-hoc querying can be implemented in Hypertable with HQL, it's just not a priority at the moment, so features are a bit lacking. I mean, it's not an inhe

Well, ad-hoc querying can be implemented in Hypertable with HQL, it's just not a priority at the moment, so features are a bit lacking. I mean, it's not an inherent 'darkside' of distributed database. OTOH, I've done cap shell with HQL and grep/sort/whatnot a few times on a few TB of data and not exactly painful :)