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I appreciate that the author here takes pains to review existing standards and implementations like ODBC/JDBC, and also reviews newer ideas like columnar stores and projects like Apache Arrow. It inspires confidence when I see engineers do some degree of review before swashbuckling their way into new code. It’s like the literature review in graduate school: first read, then code.

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Andy Grove is a PMC on Apache Arrow, and a great columnar store community member. It was probably less of a literature review for him than a reflection on past experience.

I didn’t have that context—thank you. Still, I guess it’s an endorsement when systematic review of prior art can be mutually confused with experience :-)

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