Welcome to the eighth edition of the Kudu Weekly Update. This weekly blog post covers ongoing development and news in the Apache Kudu (incubating) project.
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Development discussions and code in progress
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Sameer Abhyankar posted a patch for KUDU-1363 that adds the ability to specify IN-like predicates on column values.
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Chris George and Andy Grove have both been adding new features in Kudu’s Spark module such as methods to create/delete tables and insert/update rows in the DataSource.
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Todd Lipcon fixed a bug in RLE encoding that was reported by Przemyslaw Maciolek. Thank you Przemyslaw for reporting it and providing an easy way to reproduce it!
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Adar Dembo is currently working on addressing the issues with multi-master and early last week he got a few patches in that address some race conditions.
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Zhen Zhang got a first contribution in with a patch that adds statistics in the Java client. In 0.9.0 it will be possible to query the client to get things like the number of bytes written or how many write operations were sent.
Upcoming talks and meetups
- Dan Burkert and Mike Percy will present Kudu at the Vancouver Spark Meetup in Vancouver, BC, on May 10.