Hi all,
I'm interested in contributing to Drill; particularly of interested to me is an Azure cloud storage plugin; the idea being that a user of the storage plugin would be able to address Azure blob storage in a similar way to they might address a LocalFileSystem. This is a model that is similar to that developed for Azure's HDInsight service and in EMR, where WASB:// or S3:// schemes allow access to cloud storage in Hadoop rather than using the hdfs:// scheme. I realise the implementation as a plugin differs, and indeed is cleaner in Drill to my mind (before the project commences!). Performance and data locality trade-offs are significant in all of these cloud storage services, so concepts like spanning multiple accounts (to maximise IOPs) would be built into the plugin. Reading the contribution guidelines (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DRILL/Contributing) states I should mail here to check this is in line with what others are doing. Thanks for your time, folks, Andy
