Yes MapR and AWS both have support for Impala on their platforms but its rather early to compare both the systems now. Apache Drill is community driven project & lot of people across companies/geography are contributing to the code base.
And Yes - there is a lot of active development being done here and its very much Live. This link would answer your question in more detail: http://www.quora.com/Cloudera-Impala/Isnt-Cloudera-Impala-doing-the-same-job-as-Apache-Drill-incubator-project Feel free to post your queries regarding Drill and we would be happy to answer them. If you are interested in contributing to Drill here is a good link to get started: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DRILL/Contributing Good Luck Drilling, Yash I On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Ashish Gupta <[email protected]>wrote: > I saw that MapR and Amazon AWS has adopted Impala. So what is the purpose > of Drill? > Is it even a live project?
