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Apache Drill

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What is Apache Drill?

Apache Drill is a schema-free query engine for use with NoSQL or Hadoop data or file storage systems and databases.

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Apache Drill vs PrestoDB

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Anson AbrahamView profile
Data Loard in Engineering at Envisagenics, Inc. (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • queries multiple data sources with ease.
  • supports sql, so non technical users who know sql, can run query sets
  • 3rd party tools, like tableau, zoom data and looker were able to connect with no issues

Cons

  • deployment. Not as easy
  • configuration isn't as straight forward, especially with the documentation
  • Garbage collection could be improved upon

Return on Investment

  • Configuration has taken some serious time out.
  • Garbage collection tuning. is a constant hassle. time and effort applied to it, vs dedicating resources elsewhere.
  • w/ sql support, reduces the need of devs to generate the resultset for analysts, when they can run queries themselves (if they know sql).

Alternatives Considered

prestodb, impala and apache phoenix

Other Software Used

Apache Spark, Apache Flume, Apache Kafka, Apache Lucene