HI Anupam, 
I think you’re getting this error because you don’t have the SQLAlchemy-Drill 
driver installed: https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy-drill/

Superset will not work with Drill unless this is installed. 
Best,
— C


> On Feb 2, 2026, at 01:51, Anupam Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Charles,
> I hope you’re doing well. I wanted to follow up again on my previous messages 
> regarding the Superset and Apache Drill integration issue.
> As mentioned earlier, I have successfully added Superset to the Docker 
> Compose file, and the Superset UI is functioning as expected. However, I am 
> still encountering the following error when attempting to connect Superset to 
> Apache Drill:
> ERROR: Could not load database driver: DrillEngineSpec
> At this point, I wanted to check if there are any additional configurations, 
> drivers, or dependencies required on the Superset side to enable the Drill 
> database connection. Any guidance or documentation you could point me to 
> would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you for your time, and I look forward to your response.
> Best regards,
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Anupam Gupta <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2026 11:17 AM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Issue with Distributed Query Execution and OutOfMemoryError in 
> Apache Drill
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> 
> Hi Charles,
> Following up on my previous email regarding the Superset and Apache Drill 
> integration.
> I have added Superset to the Docker Compose file and the Superset UI is 
> working as expected. However, when I try to connect Superset to Drill, I am 
> still encountering the following error:
> ERROR: Could not load database driver: DrillEngineSpec
> Please let me know if there are any additional configurations, drivers, or 
> dependencies that need to be added to resolve this issue.
> Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated.
> Best regards,
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Anupam Gupta <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2026 2:54 PM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Issue with Distributed Query Execution and OutOfMemoryError in 
> Apache Drill
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> 
> Hi charles,
> 
> i am facing one more issue while connecting superset ui with drill i have 
> added superset to compose file and the ui is also working but when i am 
> connecting it to drill  i am getting
> ERROR: Could not load database driver: DrillEngineSpec It would be a great 
> help if you could assist me with this too
> ________________________________
> From: Anupam Gupta <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2026 11:20 AM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Issue with Distributed Query Execution and OutOfMemoryError in 
> Apache Drill
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> 
> Hi Charles,
> Thanks for the suggestions — that definitely helps.
> To answer your questions:
> 
>  *
> I’ve increased the Java heap, with the initial heap set to 8 GB and the max 
> heap set to 32 GB.
>  *
> The Drill cluster currently consists of 3 Drill nodes.
>  *
> The data is stored in Parquet format.
> 
> Despite these settings, I’m still running into the immediate query issues, 
> which is why I wanted to confirm whether there are additional tuning 
> recommendations you’d suggest around fragments or parallelization. Based on 
> your feedback, I’ll also look into further breaking up the Parquet files to 
> improve parallel execution, depending on the use case.
> Regarding the UI, that makes sense. I’ll avoid using the Drill UI for large 
> result sets and instead plan to connect Drill to a proper UI like Apache 
> Superset or pull results via JDBC when working with queries returning 1M+ 
> records.
> Thanks again for the guidance — really appreciate it.
> Best regards,
> Anupam
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Charles Givre <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, January 9, 2026 2:06 AM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Issue with Distributed Query Execution and OutOfMemoryError in 
> Apache Drill
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