Drill will take advantage of locality but does not require it. As such, the more RegionServers the better but even running on zero RegionServers will work.
The less locality you have, the more load Drill will put on your network (and the slower data reads will be). Does that help clarify things? -- Jacques Nadeau CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kevin Verhoeven <[email protected]> wrote: > On a cluster, do I have to install a drillbit on every RegionServer or can > I install a drillbit on a subset of the RegionServers? > > Thanks, > > Kevin > >
