Category: Apache Drill
Everything filed under Apache Drill.
Updated Apache Drill R JDBC Interface Package {sergeant.caffeinated} With {dbplyr} 2.x Compatibility
While the future of the Apache Drill ecosystem is somewhat in-play (MapR — a major sponsoring org for the project — is kinda dead ), I still use it almost daily (on my local home office cluster) to avoid handing over any more money to…
{sergeant} 0.9.0 Is On Its Way to CRAN Mirrors!
Tis been a long time coming, but a minor change to default S3 parameters in tibbles finally caused a push of {sergeant} — the R package that lets you use the Apache Drill REST API via {DBI}, {dplyr}, or directly — to…
On the Road to 0.8.0 — Some Additional New Features Coming in the sergeant Package
It was probably not difficult to discern from my previous Drill-themed post that I'm fairly excited about the Apache Drill 1.15.0 release. I've rounded out most of the existing corners for it in preparation for a long-overdue CRAN update…
Apache Drill 1.15.0 + sergeant 0.8.0 = pcapng Support, Proper Column Types & Mounds of New Metadata
To ring in the new year the Drill team knocked out a new 1.15.0 release with a cadre of new functionality…
Driving Drill Dynamically with Docker and Updating Storage Configurations On-the-fly with sergeant
The sergeant ? package has a minor update that adds REST API coverage for two "new" storage endpoints that make it possible to add, update and remove storage configurations on-the-fly without using the GUI or manually updating a config…
In-brief: Using Bro connection logs with Apache Drill
If you've got a directory full of Bro NSM logs, it's easy to work with them in Apache Drill since they're just tab-separated values (TSV) files by default. The most tedious part is mapping the columns to proper types and hopefully this…
Updates to the sergeant (Apache Drill connector) Package & a look at Apache Drill 1.14.0 release
Apache Drill 1.14.0 was recently released , bringing with it many new features and a temporary incompatibility with the current rev of the MapR ODBC drivers. The Drill community expects new ODBC drivers to arrive shortly. The sergeant ? is…
Connecting Apache Zeppelin and Apache Drill, PostgreSQL, etc.
A previous post showed how to use a different authentication provider to wire up Apache Zeppelin and Amazon Athena. As noted in that post, Zeppelin is a "notebook" alternative to Jupyter (and other) notebooks. Unlike Jupyter, I can…
Two new Apache Drill UDFs for Processing UR[IL]s and Internet Domain Names
Continuing the blog's UDF theme of late, there are two new UDF kids in…
New Apache Drill UDF for Processing Twitter Tweet Text
There are many ways to gather Twitter data for analysis and many R and Python (et al) libraries make full use of the Twitter API when building a corpus to extract useful metadata for each tweet along with the text of each tweet. However,…