On: Apache Drill's Future

[chrisjc]

Sad to hear this since I've been following Drill for a while. From what I understand Drill was based on the google Dremel paper, hence the name.

https://research.google/pubs/pub36632/

Wondering if maybe Spark REPL or Apache Zeppelin might be a decent replacement for Drill.

[rhacker → chrisjc]

One thing I like about Spark is the number of data sources it supports, including its ability to write out to a table or whatever. If you want to set up a JDBC or ODBC server you can also access spark SQL :

https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-distributed-sql-eng...

From an analytics perspective, a lot of people like the ability to connect to a JDBC or ODBC source.