Apache Drill vs InfluxDB

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Anson Abraham

Data Loard

Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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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.).

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Valentin Höbel

Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure

open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Pros

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

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Anson Abraham

Data Loard

Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Perfect handling telemetry data.
Low latency, near real time.
SQL-like language makes it easier to query.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

deployment. Not as easy
configuration isn't as straight forward, especially with the documentation
Garbage collection could be improved upon

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Anson Abraham

Data Loard

Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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GUI based administrator console

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Stephane Abitbol

Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist

IntactInsurance, 5001-10,000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Apache Drill 7.0

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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

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Anson Abraham

Data Loard

Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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InfluxDB 9.1

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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.

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Jonathan Yarbor

CEO & Co-Founder

NodecraftComputer Games, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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InfluxDB 9.0

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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.

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Stephane Abitbol

Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist

IntactInsurance, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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

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Anson Abraham

Data Loard

Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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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).

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Valentin Höbel

Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure

open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

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).

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Anson Abraham

Data Loard

Envisagenics, Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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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.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Apache Drill

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Apache Drill

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