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foxish

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    To anyone that has use for this, I also recommend trying the fish shell. It takes some getting used to at first but the sheer time save I realize with just autocomplete is monument…

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    Comment #19641841

    Hi bastawhiz, Performance numbers are coming, please look out for them in a future blog post. Concrete details about the architecture included in https://rockset.com/Rockset_Concep…

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    Comment #19641579

    You are right in that it uses SSD and indexes under the hood to power the SQL queries. There are volume discounts available at higher storage volumes in the 10s of TB range, so, th…

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    Comment #19640890

    Full-text search related functions can be found here: https://docs.rockset.com/text-search-functions/ As the data grows, we manage shards under the hood to ensure that the data spr…

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    Comment #19640840

    That's just for streaming input by default. We do work with users and can increase it if the use-case demands it. For bulk ingest from sources like S3, that limit does not apply an…

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    Comment #19640116

    In terms of use-cases, we see things differently from a product like Athena. We are focused on ETL-free real-time analytics and applications which make use of the fact that we cons…

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    Comment #19640077

    Hi scribu, I'm Anirudh from the product team at Rockset. The data is indexed onto SSDs in the cloud. The sweet spot is 10s of terabytes of data that you want to build a live applic…

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    Comment #19640016

    Hi yingw787, I work on the product team at Rockset. Thanks for your thoughts! I'll try and answer your questions below. - The different file formats get indexed and turn into a Roc…

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    I tend to take one-off classes at Stanford to try and see if I can short-circuit some learning that would otherwise come the hard way. Aside from that, sometimes meeting other entr…