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esProc SPL Official Blog
Company blog · blog.scudata.comdataprogramming
esProc SPL Official Blog is the company blog at blog.scudata.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link esProc SPL blog posts that argue SQL has limits for complex data tasks and present SPL as an alternative. Comments cite them as support for claims about SQL's limits.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
SPL - Data analysis engine ( Low code / High performance / Lightweight / Versatility )
What Hacker News says?
This post( https://blog.scudata.com/how-the-performance-improvement-by-... ) also explains the principle of high speed of SPL, more generally
Comment linking /how-the-performance-improvement-by-orders-of-magnitude-happened/
on “A programming language coding in a grid”Submitted SPL: A programming language coding in a grid as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThis post( https://blog.scudata.com/a-major-culprit-in-the-slow-running... ) explains why java-based SPL can run much faster than the C++-based database. BTW, SPL also support columnar storage, it can implement columnar storage in a single file. And here is a test report https://blog.scudata.com/spl-computing-performance-test-seri... . It sounds amazing, but it is not mysterious. A lot of low complexity algorithms c…
Comment linking /spl-computing-performance-test-series-funnel-analysis/
on “A programming language coding in a grid”Submitted What's Wrong with SQL in Data Warehouse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt perhaps is an error from the point of view of the ”leading reporting tooling vendor in China” https://www.scudata.com/about-us/ which starting in 2007 built their own Java NoSQL data warehouse+sqllite?!) platform. https://github.com/SPLWare/esProc https://blog.scudata.com/qa-of-esproc-architecture/ Composibility aside, I’m more interested in their identification of limits of relational algebra and the alternative…
Comment linking /qa-of-esproc-architecture/
on “SQL looks like English is a well intentioned error”Submitted What to use for data analysis programming,Talk is cheap！ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, you are right. everything belongs to its appropriate scenario. SQL is not good at some complex situation.There are many examples to prove this. Check out this article if you are interested. https://blog.scudata.com/spl-a-database-language-featuring-e...
Comment linking /spl-a-database-language-featuring-easy-writing-and-fast-running/
on “Show HN: It's been nearly 50 years. Is SQL outdated?”Submitted Low Code Written in the Grid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPlease read the full article: https://blog.scudata.com/a-challenger-of-sqlite/
Comment linking /a-challenger-of-sqlite/
on “Show HN: SQLite is about to be replaced”Submitted Data Processing Engine Embedding in Java: EsProc SPL a Competitor of SQLite as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does SPL solve the limitations of SQL and RDBMS? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion