Isn't this a Google version of Hive, which was open sourced by Facebook and provides an SQL style syntax to Hadoop. Queries aren't quick, it just allows offline data crunching to be coded quickly with out users having to code lots of map reduce. Cool concept but dont expect to see the online part of web apps powered by this.
It would be interesting to know the identity of the vendor for "DBMS-X". I work in the "enterprise" data warehouse space and I'm trying to advocate moving away from "database appliances" towards distributed computing, and having a quotable source from Google would be very compelling.
(Related article the likely prompted this link, but has since fallen off the HN front-page just in time for the American audience is:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3503866" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3503866</a>
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How does this relate to Dremel? I thought Dremel had a SQL frontend to MapReduce that was already in wide use at Google.<p><a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html" rel="nofollow">http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html</a>
> Tenzing is currently used internally at Google by 1000+ employees and serves 10000+ queries per day<p>So that's 10 queries/employee/day. That screams "experimental". Still, this would be very nice.