Yes, you need a distributed file system to take advantage of Drill's query planning. If you use multiple Drillbits and do not use a distributed file system, the consistency of the fragment information cannot be maintained.
Kristine Hahn Sr. Technical Writer 415-497-8107 @krishahn skype:krishahn On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Geercken, Uwe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > If I have a list of partitioned parquet files on the filesystem and two > drillbits with access to the filesystem and I query the data using the > column I partitioned on in the where clause of the query, will both > drillbits share the work? > > Or do I need a distributed filesystem such as Hadoop underlying to make > the bits work in parallel (or work together)? > > Tks. > > Uwe >
