Using Drill against any kind of distributed data store is a fine thing. If data locality matters, then it is nice if Drill can see what data is where. Regardless, using Drill with out HDFS works great.
I should point out that using Drill with MapR is technically using it without HDFS, but since MapR FS implements the HDFS API, the distinction is kind of technical. On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > I have seen some posts in the past about Drill nodes mounted "close to the > data", and am wondering if its possible to use Drill as a cluster without > HDFS? > > Using ZK would not be an issue in itself, and there are apparently options > like https://github.com/mhausenblas/dromedar > > Any experiences with this? >
