Manage the Apache Drill Connector

Describes the Apache Drill connector.

The Self-Service Analytics Apache Drill connector lets you access the data available in the Apache Drill open-source SQL query engine using the Self-Service Analytics client. The Self-Service Analytics Apache Drill connector supports Apache Drill versions 1.11 - 1.13.

Before you can establish a connection from Self-Service Analytics to Apache Drill, it must be downloaded, installed, configured, and enabled. See the Apache Drill website. After Apache Drill is installed, a Self-Service Analytics connector server for it needs to be installed, configured and enabled. See Manage Connectors and Connector Servers for general instructions.

After setting up the connector, create data sources that specify the necessary connection information and identify the data you want to use. See Create and Manage Data Sources for more information. After you set up your data sources, create dashboards, self service reports, and visuals from the data in these data sources.

Feature Support

Connector support for specific features is shown in the following table.

Key: Y - Supported; N - Not Supported; N/A - not applicable

Feature	Supported?
Admin-Defined Functions	Y
Box Plots	Y
Custom SQL Queries	Y
Derived Fields (Row-Level Expressions)	Y
Distinct Counts	Y
Fast Distinct Values	N/A
Group By Multiple Fields	Y
Group By Time	Y
Group By UNIX Time	Y
Histogram Floating Point Values	Y
Histograms	Y
Kerberos Authentication	Y
Last Value	Y
Live Mode and Playback	Y
Multivalued Fields	N/A
Nested Fields	N/A
Partitions	Y
Pushdown Joins for Fusion Data Sources	Y
Schemas	Y
Text Search	N/A
TLS	Y
User Delegation	N
Wildcard Filters	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Insensitive Mode	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Sensitive Mode	Y