I think there's a tradeoff here. It's like MongoDB - hundreds of thousands downloads per month because it enables people to build and deploy applications faster

I think there's a tradeoff here. It's like MongoDB - hundreds of thousands downloads per month because it enables people to build and deploy applications faster. For many cases a relational database is still better though. The nice attribute of Drill is that it works on schema-less data as well as data with strong schemas. The user can make the tradeoff between agility and 'safety'.