Drill performance

Konstantinos Tsakalozos kos.tsakalozos at canonical.com
Tue May 17 13:11:38 UTC 2016


Hi Merlijn,

Knowing that you are into data streaming with storm, have you looked at
Druid (http://druid.io/druid.html)? It might be a good fit for your use
cases.

Cheers,
Konstantinos

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Merlijn Sebrechts <
merlijn.sebrechts at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Tom! We'll contact them.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
> Merlijn Sebrechts
>
> 2016-05-17 11:44 GMT+02:00 Tom Barber <tom at analytical-labs.com>:
>
>> Hey Merlijn
>>
>> I've not scaled up to 200GB but we did do a 20-30GB HDFS test with
>> adequate performance and load being spread over drill bits. I guys on the
>> drill mailing list are pretty good at resolving performance issues though
>> so you should certainly chat to them, and with backing from the new Drill
>> startup, MapR tech, Dell and a bunch of other firms, there is a decent
>> amount of development resource on the platform to getting stuff fixed.
>>
>> That said, I'm sure there are other solutions that run faster, Impala
>> etc, also I come from an OLAP background which is why I hooked up with the
>> Kylin guys as that would give you an alternative entry point.
>>
>> Another reason for drill is the data federation and non hadoop support,
>> for example I could spin up HDFS, Mongo, and MySQL and have drill hook up
>> to all 3 of them at the same time and do:
>>
>> select * from HDFS.mytable a,MONGODB.mytable b,MySQL.mytable c where a.c1
>> = b.c1, b.c2=c.c1
>>
>> and have it return a nice federated query, which is pretty powerful.
>>
>> Of course with all this tech YMMV, but personally I've had decent results
>> with it.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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>>
>> On 17 May 2016 at 10:37, Merlijn Sebrechts <merlijn.sebrechts at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> Slightly off-topic but have you ever worked with drill? We did some
>>> tests with a 200GB and 100MB dataset in an hdfs cluster and the performance
>>> we're seeing is so bad drill is unusable for us..
>>>
>>> Some initial debugging revealed that drill isn't able to distribute the
>>> workload over the cluster. The entire query runs on one server... Have you
>>> been able to get better performance out of it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Merlijn
>>>
>>>
>>> Op dinsdag 17 mei 2016 heeft Tom Barber <tom at analytical-labs.com> het
>>> volgende geschreven:
>>> > Okay so I've been asking around as you all know and we're considering
>>> this apache specific Juju Charms page so I figured it would be useful to
>>> roundup which communities I have spoken to who have shown definite interest
>>> in collaboration.
>>> > We have:
>>> > Apache Bigtop (we all know about)
>>> > Apache Zeppelin (we all know about)
>>> > Apache Karaf
>>> > Apache Nutch
>>> > Apache OODT
>>> > Apache Joshua (Incubating)
>>> > Apache Kylin
>>> > I'm sure there will be more, and probably some I've just forgotten
>>> about or other people spoke to, but I think thats a pretty good start.
>>> > As me and Kevin also discussed Drill is also a pretty important one
>>> from a personal perspective as it offers the best (IMHO) route to getting
>>> SQL over a bunch of your NOSQL charms with minimal effort, which then helps
>>> Saiku and any other BI tooling you guys get into the platform. Its great
>>> having all the big data stuff, but we need ways for end users to get this
>>> stuff back out!
>>> >
>>> > Tom
>>> > --------------
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>>> > Tel: +44(0)5603641316
>>> > (Thanks to the Saiku community we reached our Kickstart goal, but you
>>> can always help by sponsoring the project)
>>>
>>
>>
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