What geo-database features are/will be supported? #64

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1. dongx-db commented on Nov 1, 2016

   

   dongx-db

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   Hi Konstantina,
   Thanks for your attention to our project. These are the answers to your question:

   1. We can support sfs in Simba since it can be reduced to a parser problem or a query rewriting problem. I can see the reason why people want this feature since sfs is a wide accepted specification for spatial operations in SQL. We will consider integrating this feature in following up versions.
   2. Currently, no. In Spark 1.x, JDBC service is bounded with hive context which uses a different parser from SQLContext. However, they merge SQLContext and HiveContext together as SparkSession in Spark 2.x. I think it will be natually supported when we migrate our project to Spark 2.x.

   After answering these questions above, I would like to mention that I am a first Ph.D. student by now and I am pretty heavy loaded by my course works and other research. I will try my best to make some time in adding new features and migrating Simba to Spark 2.x. But please understand that we cannot do this in a fast and efficient industry working cycle.

   Thanks again!

   Dong
2. ricosfeifei commented on Nov 1, 2016

   

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   Hi Konstantina,

   Thanks for your interest to the project!

   As Dong mentioned, we are in the process of migrating to Spark 2.0.
   Hopefully we will get that done in the next few months, after which we
   should be be able to support JDBC as well as additional query feature
   support. Stay tuned...

   Thanks!
   feifei

   On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Dong Xie notifications@github.com wrote:

   Hi Konstantina,
   Thanks for your attention to our project. These are the answers to your
   question:

   We can support sfs in Simba since it can be reduced to a parser
   problem or a query rewriting problem. I can see the reason why people want
   this feature since sfs is a wide accepted specification for spatial
   operations in SQL. We will consider integrating this feature in following
   up versions.
   2.

   Currently, no. In Spark 1.x, JDBC service is bounded with hive context
   which uses a different parser from SQLContext. However, they merge
   SQLContext and HiveContext together as SparkSession in Spark 2.x. I think
   it will be natually supported when we migrate our project to Spark 2.x.

   After answering these questions above, I would like to mention that I am a
   first Ph.D. student by now and I am pretty heavy loaded by my course works
   and other research. I will try my best to make some time in adding new
   features and migrating Simba to Spark 2.x. But please understand that we
   cannot do this in a fast and efficient industry working cycle.

   Thanks again!

   Dong

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3. ConstantB commented on Nov 1, 2016

   

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   Hi Dong,

   thanks a lot for the reply! Of course I understand that it takes a good amount of effort to support these things, my intention was more to understand what Simba currently offers as I am about to use it than to request for the new features. So no worries at all, thanks again and keep up the good work!

   Best,
   Konstantina
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