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Subject: Drill Masters Project
From: Tom Seddon <mr.tom.seddon@gmail.com>
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Hi,

I'm looking to do a dissertation on Drill, as part of masters degree in
Data Science.  I'm hoping to set up a cluster to run it and then analyse
its efficiency with different datasets, as well as make recommendations for
its usage. I know Drill is in a fairly early stage of development but I
have around 18 months until the project is due, so I'm hoping the timing
will work as Drill is developed further.

I'd be grateful for any advice on how I could get started on this.  Would a
Hadoop cluster be a good back-end to base my project on or would something
more suited to nested data like MongoDB be more appropriate?  Also, I
haven't found much documentation on configuring Drill in a distributed
environment, so any help on this would be appreciated.

I'd also be willing to contribute but not sure if I have enough Java
experience.  My background is mainly in BI and database technologies.

Thanks,

Tom

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