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Likelihood to Recommend
Apache Drill
if you're doing joins from hBASE, hdfs, cassandra and redis, then this works.Using it as a be all end all does not suit it. This is not your straight forward magic software that works for all scenarios. One needs to determine the use case to see if Apache Drill fits the needs. 3/4 of the time, usually it does.
Data Loard
Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
InfluxDB
InfluxDB is very good at storing monitoring metrics (e.g. performance data). InfluxDB is not the right choice if you need to store other data types (like plain text, data relations etc.).
Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure
open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Pros
Apache Drill
- 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
Data Loard
Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
InfluxDB
- Perfect handling telemetry data.
- Low latency, near real time.
- SQL-like language makes it easier to query.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Apache Drill
- deployment. Not as easy
- configuration isn't as straight forward, especially with the documentation
- Garbage collection could be improved upon
Data Loard
Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
InfluxDB
- GUI based administrator console
Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist
IntactInsurance, 5001-10,000 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Apache Drill
Apache Drill 7.0
Based on 1 answer
if Presto comes up with more support (ie hbase, s3), then its strongly possible that we'll move from apache drill to prestoDB. However, Apache drill needs more configuration ease, especially when it comes to garbage collection tuning. If apache drill could support also sparkSQL and Flume, then it does change drill into being something more valuable than prestoDB
Data Loard
Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
InfluxDB
InfluxDB 9.1
Based on 2 answers
InfluxDB is a near perfect product for time series database engines. The relatively small list of cons are heavily outweighed by it's ability to just work and be a very flexible and powerful database engine. The community and support provided by the corporation are the only areas I have little experience.
CEO & Co-Founder
NodecraftComputer Games, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
Apache Drill
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
InfluxDB
InfluxDB 9.0
Based on 1 answer
We have worked with the InfluxDB support team a few times so far and it has been positive. Issues submitted are worked on promptly and we have good feedback.
Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist
IntactInsurance, 5001-10,000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Apache Drill
compared to presto, has more support than prestodb.Impala has limitations to what drill can supportapache phoenix only supports for hbase. no support for cassandra. Apache drill was chosen, because of the multiple data stores that it supports htat the other 3 do not support. Presto does not support hbase as of yet. Impala does not support query to cassandra
Data Loard
Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
InfluxDB
To be honest, I didn't look at alternatives since InfluxDB performs very well if you can oversee the lack of security and HA features. But for all challenges, there is an easy solution which brings you forward (e.g. read load balancing can be achieved by using a common HTTPS load balancer).
Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure
open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Apache Drill
- 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).
Data Loard
Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
InfluxDB
- Provided us a time series DB.
- With the SQL-like language, it is very easy to learn.
- Empowered us to keep track of our events.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
Apache Drill
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
InfluxDB
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No