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From: Aditya <adityakishore@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:31:28 -0700
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia@gmail.com>
wrote:

> So what I see in the architectural overview page is one of the data sourc=
es
> to drill? Where does drill store all metadata information?
>

=E2=80=8BDrill does not have a centralized metadata store. It discovers sch=
ema on
the fly
from the data.=E2=80=8B That being said, it can work with data sources whic=
h have
defined
meta data, for example hive.


>
> When using hadoop with drill is it recommended to install drill on hadoop
> node to take advantage of data locality?
>

Definitely. Drill use=E2=80=8Bs the locality information to schedule work o=
n
appropriate
node.

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