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by itronitron 2626 days ago
Based on my initial read of your website it looks like you are in the same space as ElasticSearch and LucidWorks, although you don't seem to have non-SQL text search capabilities. It would be interesting to see a performance comparison between the three using SQL. I could see some customers wanting an SQL focused solution if there are performance gains to be had.
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[this is Venkat from Rockset]

Your assessment here is spot on @itronitron

Our schemaless data ingest + automatic indexing definitely draws a lot of inspiration from search based systems such as ES and Solr. And yes, the biggest difference here is that Rockset allows

1/ full featured SQL (with fast JOINS, aggregations, sorts etc) on such semi-structured data sets, and that

2/ it is built ground up to exploit cloud economics and scale (which is why we are able to offer this as a serverless data management system).