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Apache Drill: SQL For Nosql

Apache Drill is a SQL query engine that allows querying of non-relational data sources like Hive, MongoDB, and HBase using SQL. It is based on Google's Dremel and has ODBC/JDBC drivers, allowing other tools to connect to it like a relational database. Drill allows fast SQL analysis of disparate data without transforming or loading it first by internally representing data as JSON without a fixed schema.

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Apache Drill: SQL For Nosql

Apache Drill is a SQL query engine that allows querying of non-relational data sources like Hive, MongoDB, and HBase using SQL. It is based on Google's Dremel and has ODBC/JDBC drivers, allowing other tools to connect to it like a relational database. Drill allows fast SQL analysis of disparate data without transforming or loading it first by internally representing data as JSON without a fixed schema.

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APACHE DRILL

SQL for noSQL


What is Apache Drill?

■ A SQL query engine for a variety of non-relational databases and data files
– Hive, MongoDB, HBase
– Even flat JSON or Parquet files on HDFS, S3, Azure, Google cloud, local
file system
■ Based on Google’s Dremel
It’s real SQL

■ Not SQL-Like
■ And it has a ODBC / JDBC driver so other tools can connect to it just like any
relational database
It’s fast and pretty easy to set up.

■ But remember, these are still non-relational databases under the hood!
■ Allows SQL analysis of disparate data source without having to transform and
load it first
– Internally data is represented as JSON and so has no fixed schema
You can even do joins across
different database technologies
■ Or with flat JSON files that are just sitting around
Think of it as SQL for your entire
ecosystem
Let’s drill

■ We’ll import data into Hive and MongoDB


■ Set up Drill on top of both
■ And do some queries!

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