amrishlal commented on issue #7264: URL: https://github.com/apache/pinot/issues/7264#issuecomment-899937626
Partial responses and approximate results would be problematic in OLTP databases, but they make full sense in an analytical database such as Pinot and should be fully supported as first class citizens without throwing error or exception conditions. As an analytical database, there is value in providing partial responses or approximate results when full responses or accurate results are either missing or will take too long to generate provided that we can quantify how partial or approximate the results are. We already do a lot of this with approximation functions such as DISTINCTCOUNTHLL, high-cardinality group by estimates, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with providing partial responses as long as it can be quantified as to how partial the responses are. These should be treated different from exceptions, errors, and warnings. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@pinot.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@pinot.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@pinot.apache.org
