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Apache Drill

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Verified User in Retail
UR
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Quick and easy SQL layer for your analytics tools"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

Documentation is very easy to get started, Can we Used with Many NoSQL, and Cloud providers with minimal configuration, Also it can be coupled with HIVE or Hadoop for better performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

Could have been better if there were caching layers available like trino or presto. performance on stand-alone mode could have been better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vishal A.
VA
Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Access multiple datasource with configuration and without burden of learning multiple DB queries"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

I can use SQL with RDBMS and non RDBMS databases without the need to learn no SQL queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

Garbage collector needs to be improved faced issues while fetching big datasets. It can only read data in certain formats. Vice and versa file conversion support without any overhead would be great to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yehuda K.
YK
Big Data Architect
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Analizing log files with Apache Drill"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

Query log files, Query JSON files, do join to other systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

Quick start with single instance was not that easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Apache Drill - An Open Source SQL Query Tool"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

Apache Drill's best feature is that it is open source means free of cost, easy to install tool. You can query a large amount of data from any source by just enabling the plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

The feature I dislike is that we can only query things using view, select statements. We cannot create databases, tables using Apache Drill. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Apache Drill Review"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

Easy to use, developer friendly, Schema Free, code reusability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

It cannot read XML, No hierarchical query support, Not much aggregate function Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Investment Banking
UI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Drill is not your grandfather's thing:)"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

Easy way to write sql over non sql dbs. Creating view, Indexes etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

Faced lot of weird issue with respect to index pick up , especially while loading of data in progress . That means both write and read operations are in progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Apache Drill is a good query tool. Just you can write select query. You can’t create anything"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

It is a quick query tool for any platform, be it csv , parquet files in hdfs .You just need to enavle plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

In drill we can't create any database or table. Just we can see the basic results using select statements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Apache Drill-A query tool"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

It is easy to query a tool using apache drill, easy installation,open source tool having an interactive GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

In Apache Drill , we can't create any database ,just can use select query .And it hangs showing us petabytes or terabytes of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
IC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great product"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

We can query many different data stores , which are completely different.

Like RDBMS And No sql Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

Connections are little harder but not impossible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
CR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy to use without creating ddl and viewing the data"
What do you like best about Apache Drill?

No ddl creation is the best option without wasting time in it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Drill?

Nothing as of now everything is going good.. sometime it is slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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