> Ellen and I put something together. I need someone who has edit > privileges to post it. It is attached below:
By and large looks great! Two additions: * As you can see from http://drill-user.org/ there were few more HUGs/BUGs where Drill was presented/discussed (in Europe) - the blog itself might also be considered to manifest a contribution (?) * We have published an article on Drill in the Big Data journal http://www.liebertpub.com/big Cheers, Michael -- Michael Hausenblas Ireland, Europe http://mhausenblas.info/ On 5 Jun 2013, at 16:42, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey y'all... > > Ellen and I put something together. I need someone who has edit > privileges to post it. It is attached below: > --------------- > Apache: Project Drill > > Description: > > Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of > large-scale datasets that is based on Google's Dremel. Its goal is to > efficiently process nested data, scale to 10,000 servers or more and > to be able to process petabyes of data and trillions of records in > seconds. > > Drill has been incubating since 2012-08-11. > > Three Issues to Address in Move to Graduation: > > 1. Continue to attract new developers with a variety of skills and viewpoints > 2. Develop community skills and knowledge by building some releases > 3. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among > multiple project members > > Issues to Call to Attention of PMC or ASF Board: > > none > > How community has developed since last report: > > Mailing list discussions: > > There has been active participation in discussions on the developer > mailing list, including new participants and developers. A few have > participated in the users list; mainly activity takes place on > developer mailing list. > > Activity summary: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/ > June to date 5 June, 29 (mainly jira; some discussion) > May 2013, 135 (jira, focused discussions) > April 2013, 188 (jira; focused discussions) > March 2013 260 (jira, focused discussions) > > Topics in discussion on the dev mailing list included but not limited to: > > • Evolution of logical plan syntax with addition of operators > including the Value and Union Distinct operators > • Advantages and disadvantages of Parquet versus ORC > • ValueVector construct and requirements > • The relative performance of Janino based compilation versus > javax.tools.Javacompiler > • Initial development of execution engine environment > • Discussion of various types of large array and off heap data > structure libraries > • RPC protocol and framework > > Code > > For details of code commits, see http://bit.ly/14YPXN9 and > http://bit.ly/19IyID1 > There has been great progress around both evolution of the reference > interpreter and > > In the last three months, there have been many commits including: > • Initial implementation of RPC framework > • Base client and Zookeeper based client abstraction > • SQL parser with JDBC driver > • Distributed query scheduling framework > • ValueVector implementations > • Large number of reference interpreter tests and fixes > > Community Interactions > > There is now a weekly Drill hangout conducted remotely through Google > hangouts Tuesday mornings 9am Pacific Time to keep core developers in > contact in realtime despite geographical separation. Results from > these discussions are shared with the discussion list through meeting > minutes and all are welcome to attend. This has been helpful in > speeding development and averages attendance of 8-10 developers each > week. > > Presentations > > There have been presentations from community members at conferences, > meet-ups and through the weekly Google hangout. > > Sample presentations: > • Introduction to Apache Drill, Bay Area Analytics Group 2 April 2013 > by Tomer Shiran > • Interactive Ad hoc query at scale: talk at Hadoop User Group UK by > @mhausenblas > • Apache Drill Technical Overview: talk at Google Hangout, May 22 by > Jacques Nadeau available at http://slidesha.re/123mSDh > • Drill Technical update @April 16 Hangout by Jacques Nadeau available > at http://slidesha.re/ZDBvWP > • Drill Dissection at NoSQL matters (April) @mhausenblas video > available at http://bit.ly/13Ffk7b > • All You Need to Know About Drill, talk during Big Data Week #bdw13 > by Michael Hausenblas on 26 April http://bit.ly/17L1rD > • Deep Dive into Drill Implementation 3 June at Berlin Buzzwords by > Ted Dunning and Michael Hausenblas > > > Slides > > Slides from Drill presentations posted online such as at slideshare > get a large number and increasing number of views. > > Articles > > An invited interview with Ted Dunning in an O’Reilly white paper by > Mike Barlow titled “Real Time Big Data Analytics: Emerging > Architecture” discussed Apache Drill; there have been a number of blog > posts. > > Social Networking > > @ApacheDrill Twitter entity is active and has grown to 362 followers. > > How project has developed since last report: > > 1. Wiki has been updated regularly > 2. Significant code drops have been checked in from a number of developers > 3. Significant design documents have been created and discussed > 4. Additional non-code contributors have become active and are being > encouraged > > Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Drill. > > Signed-off-by: > Ted Dunning: [ ](drill) > Grant Ingersoll: [ ](drill) > Isabel Drost: [ ](drill)
