You can register a storage plugin instance that connects Drill to a local file system or a distributed file system registered in core-site.xml, such as S3 or HDFS. When you register a storage plugin instance for a file system, provide a unique name for the instance, and identify the type as “ file”. By default, Drill includes an instance named dfs that points to the local file system on your machine. You can update this configuration to point to a distributed file system or you can create a new instance to point to a distributed file system.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DRILL/Registering+a+File+System On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Shanmuga Sundaram Karunagaran < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm new to Apache Drill. I'm able to use it to query HBase and HDFS through > Hive. > > Please help me in the following questions > > 1. Is it possible to query HDFS directly without using Hive, like dfs, if > so please provide me the storage description (Thanks in advance) > 2. Is it possible to query traditional RDBMS like MySQL/ Microsoft SQL > Server > > > Thanks, > Shan >
