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The world's fastest open query engine for sub-second analytics both on and off the data lakehouse. With the flexibility to support nearly any scenario, StarRocks provides best-in-class performance for multi-dimensional analytics, real-time analytics, and ad-hoc queries. A Linux Foundation project.
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[Feature Request] support new data type VARIANT #46099

Open vkingnew opened 6 months ago

vkingnew commented 6 months ago

the new apache spark version 4.0 will support new data type VARIANT in 2024-06; and clickhouse had support this new data type from clickhouse version 24.1 . https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/data-types/variant

wangsimo0 commented 6 months ago

pls give more details about your scenario

Samrose-Ahmed commented 6 months ago

Doris also has this feature it is very useful for processing semi structured data like logs

utf7 commented 5 months ago

+1

lxk000000 commented 4 months ago

+1，The log and tag data scenario feels very suitable for this situation.

soumilshah1995 commented 2 months ago

+1

XBaith commented 5 days ago

pls give more details about your scenario

+1, our team need Variant as well. Our usage scenario lies mainly in accelerating queries on semi-structured types in Iceberg, support for the semi-structured type Variant has been pushed forward in the Apache Iceberg community, and I think it's time to come to think about support for the feature