Our schemaless data ingest + automatic indexing definitely draws a lot of inspiration from search based systems such as ES and Solr. And yes, the biggest difference here is that Rockset allows
1/ full featured SQL (with fast JOINS, aggregations, sorts etc) on such semi-structured data sets, and that
2/ it is built ground up to exploit cloud economics and scale (which is why we are able to offer this as a serverless data management system).
Your assessment here is spot on @itronitron
Our schemaless data ingest + automatic indexing definitely draws a lot of inspiration from search based systems such as ES and Solr. And yes, the biggest difference here is that Rockset allows
1/ full featured SQL (with fast JOINS, aggregations, sorts etc) on such semi-structured data sets, and that
2/ it is built ground up to exploit cloud economics and scale (which is why we are able to offer this as a serverless data management system).