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Author: James Turton <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Oct 31 09:15:39 2021 +0200
Blog post: The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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+excerpt: There's a somewhat breathless post entitled "The Death of Apache
Drill" in a blog that has as a theme the imminent demise of technologies
previously or currently associated with Hadoop, with the exception of the query
engine formerly known as PrestoSQL, or Trino.
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+There's a somewhat breathless post entitled "The Death of Apache Drill" in a
blog that has as a theme the imminent demise of technologies previously or
currently associated with Hadoop, with the exception of the query engine
formerly known as PrestoSQL, or Trino. It's ultimately a promotional piece for
the website's owner, which is entirely normal and usually it wouldn't warrant
further mention. But it's done whatever it is that it takes to climb up to the
first page of the search resu [...]
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+Firstly, the title proclaims a little too much. Drill did suffer the loss of
its primary corporate backer, and of course its pulse has been faint as a
result, but we invite the author to visit the project and reconsider his
declaration of death. We don't have hundreds of active contributors making
thousands of commits a year but there are enough of us to get bugs fixed, new
data sources supported, performance and reliability improved. We've started
talking about speeding up our relea [...]
+
+Next, the notion that Drill is "tied", locked in, to MapR and Hadoop. As far
as _Apache_ Drill is concerned, this has never been true in the time I've
worked on it . You require nothing from MapR, nor do you need to run a single
Hadoop service, in order to starting querying using the Drill binaries we
distribute with default settings. That is not to say that you _cannot_
integrate Drill with MapR products and Hadoop, it supports these things well
and its history is certainly intertwin [...]
+
+On performance and concurrency issues, I don't have enough information to add
anything useful to this. I can say that we would treat fixing such issues as a
priority if their magnitude was anything more than minor. It's worth noting
that, While there are projects that focus on speed to the exclusion of all
else, contemporary Drill places as much weight on flexibility as it does on
speed. The dichotomy implied by the post's "Proprietary Solutions vs. Open
Source" section heading? It i [...]
+
+What of the need for users of Hadoop to be "fearful"? Hadoop probably was
overdeployed as many of us rushed to cargo cult another FAANG technology that
was developed for a context that only some of us actually share. But it's a
mature technology that solves a certain set of problems very well, it lives at
Apache, and it is not about to vanish in a puff of smoke. In my opinion there
is no need for users of Hadoop to feel afraid, regardless of how their big data
stacks might evolve in t [...]
+
+Drill is it a very interesting point in its history. It presents a unique
opportunity to developers who would like to challenge themselves in that
individual contributions are not diluted in a sea of commits from others, and
even newcomers can have a major impact. If you'd like to come and pick an
interesting problem in Drill to solve please feel welcomed, you'll find us a
friendly bunch. If you'd like a job working full time on Drill then send an
email to me at dzamo at apache.org.
