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Apache Drill: the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated

by dzamo_norton on 11/1/21, 4:47 AM with 21 comments

• by hawk_ on 11/1/21, 7:15 AM

  I think this is the other blog being referred to https://blog.starburst.io/the-death-of-apache-drill

• by kendru on 11/1/21, 1:06 PM

  Sure, Presto/Trino has better market share, but Drill is still a useful project. I think the main issue is one of marketing - Presto has it, and Drill does not.

• by willvarfar on 11/1/21, 12:49 PM

  I know the death of drill blog was normal marketing by Starburst, but I'm kinda agreeing with them.

  Drill is one of those technologies that people don't think to turn to today if they're starting a new project.

  What does Drill offer that would make it out-compete the other candidates for a fresh new project?

• by filereaper on 11/1/21, 7:31 AM

  >We’ve started talking about speeding up our release cadence to better reflect our recent activity.

  There's been only one release per year in the past so you can't fault anyone to think the project is dead.

  https://github.com/apache/drill/releases

• by atombender on 11/1/21, 9:29 AM

  How does Drill compare to more popular tools like Hive and Presto?