According to a new article, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only Converged Data Platform, today announced the availability of Apache Drill 1.6 as the unified SQL layer for the MapR Converged Data Platform via tighter integration with MapR-DB. Customers and partners benefit from the flexibility of reporting and analytics on JSON data stored in MapR-DB tables, realizing faster time-to-value with insights gleaned from operational data.
According to Hadoop Weekly*, ‘The Apache Drill project has one of the fastest release velocities in the Hadoop ecosystem with a new release nearly every month.
