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- Title: Drill Introduction
Drill Introduction
Drill is an Apache open-source SQL query engine for Big Data exploration. Drill is designed from the ground up to support high-performance analysis on the semi-structured and rapidly evolving data coming from modern Big Data applications, while still providing the familiarity and ecosystem of ANSI SQL, the industry-standard query language. Drill provides plug-and-play integration with existing Apache Hive and Apache HBase deployments.
What’s New in Apache Drill 1.0 {#what’s-new-in-apache-drill-1.0}
Apache Drill 1.0 offers the following new features:
- Many performance planning and execution improvements.
- Updated Drill shell now formats query results.
- Query audit logging for getting the query history on a Drillbit.
- Improved connection handling.
- New Errors tab in the Query Profiles UI that facilitates troubleshooting and distributed storing of profiles.
- Support for a new storage plugin input format: Avro
In this release, Drill disables the DECIMAL data type, including casting to DECIMAL and reading DECIMAL types from Parquet and Hive. You can enable the DECIMAL type, but this is not recommented.
Apache Drill Key Features
Key features of Apache Drill are:
- Low-latency SQL queries
- Dynamic queries on self-describing data in files (such as JSON, Parquet, text) and MapR-DB/HBase tables, without requiring metadata definitions in the Hive metastore.
- ANSI SQL
- Nested data support
- Integration with Apache Hive (queries on Hive tables and views, support for all Hive file formats and Hive UDFs)
- BI/SQL tool integration using standard JDBC/ODBC drivers
Quick Links
If you’ve never used Drill, visit these links to get a jump start: