DBMS > Apache Drill

Apache Drill System Properties

Please select another system to compare it with Apache Drill.

Our visitors often compare Apache Drill with Trino, Aerospike and ClickHouse.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.86
Rank	#117	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

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

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

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

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Working with Big Data: Tools and Techniques
11 September 2023, KDnuggets

Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine
31 August 2021, TechTarget

Sundeck Launches Query Engineering Platform for Snowflake
8 June 2023, The New Stack

The Architect's Guide to Data and File Formats
17 January 2023, The New Stack

Apache Drill Adds New Data Formats
28 March 2022, iProgrammer

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

AWS/ Big Data Developer
BI Labs, United States

Software Engineer (Back-end Development)
Concourse Labs, Austin, TX

jobs by

Share this page