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Microsoft has bought VC-funded big-data SQL start up Metanautix, building what it’s called a data compute engine. Metanautix was founded by Google former engineering director Theo Vassilakis and ex Facebook senior software engineer Toli Lerios in 2012 and landed $7m from Sequoia Capital. Their creation was Quest, released in …

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  1. Mikel

    Brain drain

    Microsoft has been capturing the best brains in tech for 20 years. You can tell by their products what they do with them.

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    Sausage.

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  2. Alister

    Vassilakis lead Google’s work on Dremel and founded Metanautix with Lerios to bring the technology to a broader, enderptise audience.

    Surely this isn't just a typo, but a comment by the author on Enterprise level companies?

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    1. Ian Michael Gumby
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      @Alister...

      You should have used the 3 stooge pedantic grammar nazi icon. :-P

      But to your point... Apache Drill is the OS spin off from Dremel. So why spend $$$$ on buying yet another NoSQL database doesn't make sense... But then again, this is Microsoft we're talking about so what do I know? (They did buy Nokia, right? ;-P )

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  3. Your alien overlord - fear me
    Trollface

    Why buy an unstructured SQL engine when they have their own in house !!!!! Just kidding (from a MCDBA )

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    1. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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      Amen, brother!

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