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by joeblau 4659 days ago
How is this different/better than using something like Elastic Search? Does it handle real time upload/searching or do you have to bulk upload, process the data and then run your searches?
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No processing necessary. Just upload JSON.

The Quirrel language is much more high level than the API for ElasticSearch. It comes with things like machine learning (e.g. clustering and linear regression):

http://precog.com/developers/how-tos/machine-learning/

Even without libraries like machine learning, you can write somewhat readable queries which do some impressive things:

http://precog.com/developers/how-tos/common-analytics/

Great, now I'm gonna be up for another three hours! Thanks for your feedback.