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by vaughan 979 days ago
> As for SQL

We should peel off SQL and get access to the underlying layers.

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What if my SQL engine is Presto, Trino [1], or a similar query engine? If it's federating multiple source databases we peel the SQL back and get... SQL? Or you peel the SQL back and get... S3 + Mongo + Hadoop? Junior analysts would work at 1/10th the speed if they had to use those raw.

[1] https://trino.io/