Since the Apache Kudu project made its debut in 2015, there have been a few common questions that kept coming up at every presentation: Is Kudu an open source version of Google’s Spanner system? Is Kudu NoSQL or SQL? Why does Kudu have a relational data model? Isn’t SQL dead? A few of these questions are addressed in the Kudu FAQ, but I thought they were interesting enough that I decided to give a