Apache Drill Alternatives

Apache Drill is described as 'Schema-free SQL query engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage. Drill's datastore-aware optimizer automatically restructures a query plan to leverage the datastore's internal processing capabilities' and is an app in the development category. There are 2 alternatives to Apache Drill for Mac, Linux and Self-Hosted. The best Apache Drill alternative is BlazingSQL, which is both free and Open Source.

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  1. BlazingSQL icon

    BlazingSQL

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    BlazingSQL is a GPU accelerated SQL engine built on top of the RAPIDS ecosystem. RAPIDS is based on the Apache Arrow columnar memory format, and cuDF is a GPU DataFrame library for loading, joining, aggregating, filtering, and otherwise manipulating data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    • BlazingSQL is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Apache Drill.

    • BlazingSQL is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Apache Drill.

    • BlazingSQL is Free and Open SourceApache Drill is also Free and Open Source
  2. Presto icon

    Presto

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    Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     

    • Presto is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Apache Drill.

    • Presto is Free and Open SourceApache Drill is also Free and Open Source
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