Do NoSql Like SQL : Introduction to Apache Drill

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Update: Change in speaker and topic

We are sorry to announce that Ted Dunning won't be speaking at our upcoming meet-up due to scheduling conflict. Please see the details about the new talk below.

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SQL is one of the most widely used languages to access, analyze, and manipulate structured data. As Hadoop gains traction within enterprise data architectures across industries, the need for SQL for both structured and loosely-structured data on Hadoop is growing rapidly Apache Drill started off with the audacious goal of delivering consistent, millisecond ANSI SQL query capability across wide range of data formats. At a high level, this translates to two key requirements – Schema Flexibility and Performance.

Apache Drill provides the users the ability to interact with big data on Hadoop much faster and far more easily using the familiar SQL language. Users are no longer dependent on central IT teams and DBAs to produce schemas and then maintain them when the structure changes for a few records. Drill alleviates the pain associated with structuring unstructured data before one gains any insights by providing a simple mechanism to query any dataset on Hadoop - be it flat files, parquet or JSON files or tables within an HBase table.

This session will give you an overview of several different use cases that enterprises are testing Drill for.

About the speaker

Nitin Bandugula is Product Marketing Manager at MapR where he leverages his engineering and business experience to help customers understand and benefit from the leading Big Data platform provider in this role in product marketing. Prior to MapR, Nitin served at SWIFT Inc. in various engineering, project management and consulting roles alongside McKinsey and Co. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.

Event Notes

Regular members, please note that this meeting is on Wednesday instead of our regular second-Tuesday-of-the-month schedule. We will serve pizza and drinks at the event thanks to the sponsorship from MapR.

Also, we will be sharing details about the newly announced free MapR Hadoop On-Demand Training for developers, analysts and administrators. If you are interested in learning Hadoop big data platform, you don't want to miss out.