The use of basic SQL on serialized files such as parquet and very easy to play around in a distributed cluster.(cloud-based) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It works on all the files, however, for serialized it works faster on .parquet extension files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Drill was pretty easily extended to get data from our proprietary platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The thing that we had the hardest time with was getting our organization to put more resources into turning our proof of concept into a product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Apache Drill is awesome because you can use regular SQL to query multiple datastores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I dislike that it can only read data in certain formats. Converting to json or parquet adds overhead if your data is not already in that format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Better than various flat file JDBC drivers out there for querying huge CSV files. Also integrates JSON and other formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Complicated setup, not supported on Windows (using Cygwin is a hack) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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