title: Apache Drill: Interactive Ad-Hoc Analysis at Scale.
abstract: Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive ad-hoc analysis of large-scale datasets. Designed to handle up to petabytes of data spread across thousands of servers, the goal of Drill is to respond to ad-hoc queries in a low-latency manner. In this article, we introduce Drill's architecture, discuss its extensibility points, and put it into the context of the emerging offerings in the interactive analytics realm.
authors.affiliation: MapR Technologies.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hausenblas
authors.affiliation: MapR Technologies.
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nadeau