EventQL
Data
analytics database
SHOW HN2016
90points
18comments
#425of 2,264 in 2016
Top 19%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Performance: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fully open source and self-hostable, unlike BigQuery
From 1 comment
Yes, it is similar to BigQuery with a couple of differences as you pointed out. The big ones being that it's fully open source and self-hostable. It's less similar to Apache…
paulasmuth on HN
Simple to set up
From 1 comment
Looks great! I've just gotten a single instance up and running. Really simple to set up. It seems almost exactly what We've been looking for! Some background: We have been…
babas on HN
Objections
No CSV import in the current release build
From 1 comment
We do have a csv import util (the API expects JSON) but it's not in the current distribution/release build. I'll add it and update this comment once it's live. Queries are mostly…
paulasmuth on HN
Requests
Add CSV import
From 1 comment
How can we import CSV dataset? HTTP API for insert returns this error message: expected JSON_OBJECT_BEGIN, got: JSON_OBJECT_BEGIN. The GROUP BY query in homepage scans 1.8B rows…
buremba on HN
Publish comparisons with other databases such as InfluxDB, Clickhouse and Redshift
From 4 comments
Looks great! I've just gotten a single instance up and running. Really simple to set up. It seems almost exactly what We've been looking for! Some background: We have been…
babas on HNHow does it compare to Clickhouse, recently released from Yandex [0]? [0] https://clickhouse.yandex/
ddispaltro on HNWhy EventQL over other distributed columnar-storage based databases like Redshift, Vertica, Citus, or Hadoop-based ones like Impala and Presto. What does EventQL do better?
dtheodor on HNGood question! May be useful to add to Show HN guidelines that it is recommended to add a "Why X" section. Or "How X compares to others in this space". Without that, it is…
carterehsmith on HN
Questions
How does it compare to ClickHouse?
From 1 comment
How does it compare to Clickhouse, recently released from Yandex [0]? [0] https://clickhouse.yandex/
ddispaltro on HN
Disk usage and ingestion rate versus InfluxDB and Cassandra
From 2 comments
looks good [0], thank you can anyone comment on data disk usage ? [0] docs - http://eventql.io/documentation/
nwrk on HNLooks great! I've just gotten a single instance up and running. Really simple to set up. It seems almost exactly what We've been looking for! Some background: We have been…
babas on HN
Alternatives named
BigQuery
From 1 comment
Is this similar to Apache Drill[0]/Google Dremel[1] (BigQuery[2])? One differences is that it seems to be able to do mutations to data, not simple appends. [0]…
jimktrains2 on HN
Apache Drill
From 1 comment
Is this similar to Apache Drill[0]/Google Dremel[1] (BigQuery[2])? One differences is that it seems to be able to do mutations to data, not simple appends. [0]…
jimktrains2 on HN
ClickHouse
From 1 comment
How does it compare to Clickhouse, recently released from Yandex [0]? [0] https://clickhouse.yandex/
ddispaltro on HN
InfluxDB
From 1 comment
Looks great! I've just gotten a single instance up and running. Really simple to set up. It seems almost exactly what We've been looking for! Some background: We have been…
babas on HN
KDB+
From 1 comment
If you're looking for recommendations for time series data, this thread still holds up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8368509 I'd consider taking a look at KDB+
teej on HN
OSI PI
From 1 comment
At my work we use OSI PI which is an Enterprise Historian for storing this kind of physical sensor data - has very good support for time series logging and integrates well with…
bigger_cheese on HN