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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