Do you wish to use Drill in distributed mode with each node having it's own local file system or do you plan to use it with a different data source which is also a distributed file system (but not HDFS / MapR-FS)?
If the former, yes you should be able to form a Drill cluster by bringing up Drillbits in standalone mode on multiple disjoint nodes. You will still need ZooKeeper for cluster coordination. But understand that since each node can only talk to files on it's local file system, the Drill cluster will not have a unified view and access of the files for distributed processing. Your queries may fail, as a Drillbit might fail to access data. To experiment, you can make sure the directories and files you need to query are identical on each node. However, this is untested and I'm not sure if it will indeed work. If it's the latter, can you share what data source you have in mind? On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Matt <bsg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have seen some posts in the past about Drill nodes mounted "close to the > data", and am wondering if its possible to use Drill as a cluster without > HDFS? > > Using ZK would not be an issue in itself, and there are apparently options > like https://github.com/mhausenblas/dromedar > > Any experiences with this? >
