I have no such experience. The performance loss could vary from minor to profound depending on your query, network and disk setup.
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:56 PM, Rahul Raj <[email protected]> wrote: > Any experience of running drill on GlusterFS or similar storage systems? > How much performance loss would incur because of unavailability of data > locality? > > Regards, > Rahul > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Abhishek Girish <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Do you wish to use Drill in distributed mode with each node having it's > own > > local file system or do you plan to use it with a different data source > > which is also a distributed file system (but not HDFS / MapR-FS)? > > > > If the former, yes you should be able to form a Drill cluster by bringing > > up Drillbits in standalone mode on multiple disjoint nodes. You will > still > > need ZooKeeper for cluster coordination. But understand that since each > > node can only talk to files on it's local file system, the Drill cluster > > will not have a unified view and access of the files for distributed > > processing. Your queries may fail, as a Drillbit might fail to access > data. > > To experiment, you can make sure the directories and files you need to > > query are identical on each node. However, this is untested and I'm not > > sure if it will indeed work. > > > > If it's the latter, can you share what data source you have in mind? > > > > 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? > > > > > > > -- > **** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is > addressed. If you are not the named addressee then you should not > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > immediately and delete this e-mail from your system.**** >
