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Apache Drill Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8 out of 10
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8 out of 10

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Pros

Accessibility: Apache Drill being an open-source tool has made it accessible to a wide range of users. Many reviewers have appreciated the fact that they can freely use the tool without any cost implications.

Easy installation: Reviewers have found the installation process for Apache Drill to be easy and straightforward. This user-friendly installation experience has been praised by many users who were able to get started with the tool quickly.

Versatility in data querying: The ability of Apache Drill to query a large amount of data from any source by enabling plugins has been seen as a valuable feature by many reviewers. This flexibility allows users to easily integrate different data sources and perform complex queries without having to learn multiple query languages.

Reviews

1 Review

Apache Drill vs PrestoDB

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apache Drill was being used initially to evaluate running queries on data stored in multiple data stores (hDFS, postgres, cassandra). We were testing it out, over the use of PrestoDB. But saw that Drill also supported HBASE and other engines. it was from that aspect, used Drill to query data across the multiple datasources, as more ec2 instances were created, since some of the data was also stored in s3.

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

Cons

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

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.

AA
Anson Abraham
Data Loard in Engineering at Envisagenics, Inc. (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
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