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Apache Drill System Properties

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Website

drill.apache.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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Recent citations in the news

Apache Drill case study: A tutorial on processing CSV files
9 June 2016, theserverside.com

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23 September 2019, Towards Data Science

MapR Advances Support for Flexible and High Performance Analytics on JSON and S3 Data with Apache Drill
30 January 2019, Business Wire

Drill Mines Diverse Data Sets, Google Style
20 May 2015, The Next Platform

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22 January 2019, researchgate.net

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