Drill 0.9 Released (May 4, 2015)
The community has just released Drill 0.9, which includes 199 resolved JIRAs and numerous enhancements.

Apache Parquet Graduates to a Top-Level Project (Apr 30, 2015)
The Apache Parquet project has graduated to a top-level project (TLP) at the Apache Software Foundation.

Drill 0.8 Released (Mar 31, 2015)
The community has just released Drill 0.8, which includes 243 resolved JIRAs and numerous enhancements.

MicroStrategy Announces Drill Support (Mar 23, 2015)
MicroStrategy announced that it is now certified with Apache Drill, providing a first-class BI experience for Hadoop and NoSQL databases.

Schema-free JSON Data Infrastructure (Jan 27, 2015)
JSON has emerged as the de-facto standard data exchange format. Data infrastructure technologies such as Apache Drill, MongoDB and Elasticsearch are embracing JSON as their native data models, bringing game-changing ease-of-use and agility to developers and analysts.

Drill 0.7 Released (Dec 23, 2014)
The community has just released Drill 0.7, which includes 228 resolved JIRAs and numerous enhancements.

What's Coming in 2015? (Dec 16, 2014)
Drill is now a top-level project, and the community is expanding rapidly. Find out more about some of the new features planned for 2015.

Apache Drill Q&A Panelist Spotlight (Dec 11, 2014)
Join us on Twitter for a live Q&A on Wednesday, December 17.

Running SQL Queries on Amazon S3 (Dec 9, 2014)
Drill enables you to run SQL queries directly on data in S3. There's no need to ingest the data into a managed cluster or transform the data. This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Drill with S3.

Apache Drill Graduates to a Top-Level Project (Dec 2, 2014)
Drill has graduated to a Top-Level Project at Apache. This marks a significant accomplishment for the Drill community, which now includes dozens of developers working at a variety of companies.

SQL on MongoDB (Nov 19, 2014)
The MongoDB storage plugin for Drill enables analytical queries on MongoDB databases. Drill's schema-free JSON data model is a natural fit for MongoDB's data model.

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Third-Party Articles

How to Turn Raw Data from Yelp into Insights in Minutes with Apache Drill (Nov 13, 2014)

How to Use SQL, Hadoop, Drill, REST, JSON, NoSQL, and HBase in a Simple REST Client (Jan 6, 2015)