Drill is an open-source SQL Query Engine designed for Big Data exploration. It is the open-source version of Google's Dremel distributed query system, and its design includes a columnar execution engine. Drill is the only distributed SQL engine in the world that does not require schemas. It supports many NoSQL databases and file systems, with the ability for a single query to join data from multiple datastores.[05][04][01]
- Website
- https://drill.apache.org[01]
- Source Code
- https://github.com/apache/drill[02]
- Tech Docs
- https://drill.apache.org/docs/[03]
- Developer
- Country of Origin
- US
- Start Year
- 2012 [06]
- Project Type
- Open Source
- Written in
- Java
- Supported Languages
- SQL
- Inspired By
- BigQuery
- License
- Apache v2
Drill is an open-source SQL Query Engine designed for Big Data exploration. It is the open-source version of Google's Dremel distributed query system, and its design includes a columnar execution engine. Drill is the only distributed SQL engine in the world that does not require schemas. It supports many NoSQL databases and file systems, with the ability for a single query to join data from multiple datastores.[05][04][01]
Citations
6 sources- https://drill.apache.org apache.org
- GitHub - apache/drill: Apache Drill is a distributed MPP query layer for self describing data · GitHub github.com
- Documentation - Apache Drill apache.org
- Apache Drill - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
- Drill Introduction - Apache Drill apache.org
- First commit github.com