Previous discussion in September when they didn't have distributed processing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41496033

Github Repo: https://github.com/lakehq/sail

Few interesting notes:

- Benchmarks show 4x faster than Spark on TPC-H with 94% cost reduction.

- Currently at 65.7% PySpark test compatibility(they talk about this in more detail in the post)

- Built in Rust using Tokio runtime and Arrow IPC for high performance

- Already supports 79/99 TPC-DS queries

Also, some discussions on Reddit from yesterday/today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/comments/1gv840u/in...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1gwayz6/introducing_d...