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by vquemener 2850 days ago
Actually, they really do support SQL as a query language : https://www.elastic.co/en/blog/an-introduction-to-elasticsea...
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There's even a JDBC driver on the commercial tier
yeah a "subset of SQL" and on the page you gave me 0 example of a JOIN. so no JOIN no SQL sorry
"We support SQL on our distributed data platform" has to be the new big lie of distributed systems salespeople.

I'm not saying that computing joins, aggegates, sorts, etc can't be done in a distributed fashion, it just takes time, a lot of network reliability/reattempts, and understanding of the approximate nature of results if there are ongoing "eventually consistent" updates rolling through the cluster(s).

well you cannot have a search engine query time + a SQL layer at least not at DB speeds