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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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