That's indeed interesting. It is like a RDBMS that uses Hadoop as the underlying storage engine.I see that others have managed to run the TPC-C suite against Trafodion too: http://hammerora.sourceforge.net/hammerdb_trafodion_oltp.pdf I think this could be a good opportunity for Hibernate to approach the BigData world and I can see how nicely this could be advertised to Hibernate advantage.Since they want to contribute, I see no reason for not helping them reaching this goal. Vlad On Monday, October 26, 2015 8:14 PM, Brett Meyer <brett(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: All, we've been approached by the team responsible for the Apache Trafodion project, an "SQL-on-Hadoop" solution.  They've developed a Dialect, are willing to contribute it, and are willing to maintain it long term.  The latter has been a requirement for a while -- we have too many Dialects that were contributed then abandoned. However, the other requirement is actual demand by community users. So, out of curiosity, would anyone actually use it?  I'm not at all familiar with the project or space, but it definitely sounds interesting.  If this Dialect would be helpful, please add your vote to the JIRA: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-10216 _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev