Fred, really interesting article! Thanks for posting it.<p>For those in the Bay Area, if you&#x27;d like to hear more about Kudu, I&#x27;m giving a talk about it in Palo Alto tomorrow (Wed) at the Big Data Application Meetup at 6PM: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;BigDataApps&#x2F;events&#x2F;227191025&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;BigDataApps&#x2F;events&#x2F;227191025&#x2F;</a><p>Also presenting are Julien Le Dem of Dremio on Apache Drill and James Taylor of Salesforce on Apache Phoenix. Should be a really interesting evening!<p>(Don&#x27;t mean to hijack the thread, just thought this might be relevant to some folks. :)<p>Mike