On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[email protected]> wrote:
> So what I see in the architectural overview page is one of the data sources > to drill? Where does drill store all metadata information? > Drill does not have a centralized metadata store. It discovers schema on the fly from the data. That being said, it can work with data sources which have defined meta data, for example hive. > > When using hadoop with drill is it recommended to install drill on hadoop > node to take advantage of data locality? > Definitely. Drill uses the locality information to schedule work on appropriate node.
