[mccanne]

That's a cool idea. We've had many collaborators using Zed lakes for search at smallish scale and we are still building the breadth of features needed for a serious search platform, but I think we have a nice architecture that holds the promise to blend the best of both worlds of warehouses and search.

As for list() and values() functions, Zed has native arrays and sets so there's no need for a "multi-value" concept as in splunk. If you want to turn a set into an array, a cast will do the trick, e.g.,

echo '1 2 2 3 3' | zq 'u:=union(this) | cast(u,<[int64]>) ' -

[1,2,3]

(Note that <[int64]> is a type value that represents array of int64.)