MapR Technologies has announced the general availability of Apache Drill 1.0 in the MapR Distribution.
Drill is said to uniquely deliver self-service SQL analytics without requiring pre-defined schema definitions, dramatically reducing the time required for business analysts to explore and understand data.
The product enables interactivity with data from both legacy transactional systems and new data sources, such as Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, web click-streams, and other semi-structured data, along with support for popular business intelligence (BI) and data visualization tools.
Also, drill provides reliability and performance at Hadoop scale with integrated granular security and governance capabilities required for multi-tenant data lakes or enterprise data hubs.
Gadre said users no longer need to know the schema before analyzing data, which enables a much larger group within organizations to derive value from their big data much faster.
Drill enables users to perform self-service data exploration on a wide variety of data types including complex JSON formats without having to depend on IT for data preparation.