Hey There Welcome to the land of Drill. Drill is still an incubating project and I a number of contributors are primarily focused on building their individual pieces. We also do regular weekly Tuesday standups that have been very helpful. However, we've been lax on reporting those discussions back to the list and need to do a better job. (Feel to drop by at any of them if you'd like).
We're focused on an alpha now. Once that is in place, I think you'll see an increase in list activity. When will Drill be ready for primetime? We're a ways out still. Unless you're a developer or a passionate early adopter, you'll probably want to wait for a beta... which I would estimate for the Q3/Q4 timeframe. As far as visualization tools, we're really focused on JDBC and ODBC and standard SQL so those tools should work well as we get further along. Additionally, one of the core Pentaho contributors also contributes on Drill so you'll likely see a strong interoperability between those systems. Thanks, Jacques On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Hadoop Inquirer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We are hoping to use Drill for a visualization initiative within our > organization. > > However, the mailing list seems to be heavily underused compared to other > projects in the Hadoop ecosystem. hopefully, you guys are still actively > developing this. > > Can someone comment on any plans for: > > 1) an upcoming stable release, and > 2) interaction with popular visualization tools like Tableau, Pentaho etc. > > Regards, > H.I.
