For fast, interactive Hadoop queries, Drill may be the answer – Old GigaOmIn the era of big data, there is increasing demand for ever-faster ways to analyze — preferably in an interactive way — information sitting in Hadoop. Now the Apache Foundation is backing an open-source version of Dremel, the tool Google(s goog) uses for these jobs, as a way to bring that speedy analysis to the masses. The proposed tool is called Drill and the Apache Foundation documents describe
