Ted is correct that it’s non-trivial to build an adapter to a new data source. I wouldn’t say “very significant” — you can get quite a useful adapter by just pushing down table scans, and doing all other relational operations (filter, aggregate, join etc.) in the client. If you want further optimizations, you need to push down more operations, and that takes thought.
But I believe that Phoenix does work reasonably well. After all, it presents a JDBC interface, and Optiq’s JDBC adapter is fairly mature.
Gabriel, Bruno, Steven or Karel: Can you give more details about your integration between Optiq and Phoenix?
James Taylor and I have discussed how Optiq could be used to power Phoenix (thus we’d be talking about an HBase adapter) but nothing has come from those discussions at this point.
Julian