IIRC, earlier in the project, a differentiator for Drill was to be the ability to run drillbit processes across servers, and run distributed queries from one of

IIRC, earlier in the project, a differentiator for Drill was to be the ability to run drillbit processes across servers, and run distributed queries from one of them with Zookeeper as a coordinator. This would have been a simple approach to distributed queries where secondary extract and loading into a distributed filesystem or Parquet file was not desired [1] Unfortunately to date, distributed queries will fail if the paths _and_ files are not symmetric in name - all file paths and names must exist on all nodes - therefore the "in situ" approach is not available. It appears the project focused on querying distributed file systems like HDFS and S3 and therefore had a lot of competition. I hope some group picks up where HPE orphaned Drill after the MapR acquisition and pivots to a pure distributed worker approach. Running a drillbit on nodes where the data originates could be useful, the original example was SQL over http logs directly from webservers. [1] https://mapr.com/blog/drill-your-big-data-today-apache-drill/ https://mapr.com/blog/drill-your-big-data-today-apache-drill...