Drill definitely can serve as a database virtualization layer. Calcite was used this way when it was just Optiq and Drill provides interesting additional capabilities.
The emerging view of user needs seems to be tilting more towards the semi-structured data capabilities of Drill rather than the virtualization potential, however. As an open community, Drill can be swayed by your input. If you want to make this happen, you definitely can do it. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Uli Bethke <[email protected]> wrote: > The use case of the adjunct data warehouse requires a data federation > layer between production warehouse analytics on Hadoop and the rest of the > EDW on an RDBMS. > > The incumbents (Teradata, Oracle, SAS etc.) have proprietary offerings in > this space. PrestoDB also allows for federation between Hadoop and Postgres > and MySQL. > > In my opinion Drill would be ideally suited to be the federation tool of > choice. > I am wondering how the Drill roadmap prioritises this use case in terms of > connectors to popular EDW RDBMS engines? > thanks > uli >
