Sphynx Update - product strategy and updated roadmap

 To let everyone know what is under the hood of the Sphynx project, here is an update:

·         Source and Target databases - SQL Server (Source and Catalog), plus Teradata as the source – available in version 1,1(November);

·         Full support for the catalog – available in version 1,1(November);

·         Direct Queries – available in version 1,1(November);

·         Additional packages – After product launch, new pack new extra packages will be available: Oracle, Postgres/Greenplum, and MYSQL;

·         Hadoop/Spark and Cassandra – Version 1.3 – Feb 2021;

·         Open Interface – any database – Version 2.0 – August 2021;

 

License:

Version 1,1 and subsequent versions derived from V1 – Creative Commons - with the following restrictions:

Accreditation: The author must be attributed as the creator of the work. Then, work can be modified, distributed, copied, used otherwise.

Shared with CC: The work can be modified, distributed but only under CC License.

Non-Commercial: Work can be modified, distributed but not for commercial purposes. The word “commercial” is a bit vague in its meaning since no solid lined definition is provided.

No Derivative Works: You can copy and distribute the licensed work, but you can’t modify it in any way or create work based on the origin [as MIT Open Courseware Material is

We will not provide SQL Server Licenses. The versions of SQL Server supported starting with Version 2016.

Version 2:

From version 2 onwards will become a fully commercial product, and users of versions 1.x will preserve their rights.

Version 2 will also provide a new internal architecture to fully support distributed and heterogeneous platforms, full federated queries (queries using a single command set for all databases supported), and universal database access using add-ins;

The good news is that the licensing will be on a per-client basis, plus a free catalog viewer and navigation client without management features.

Also, federated queries will allow dynamic data transfers across platforms(fast-ETL);

 


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