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Apache Drill vs PostgREST: What are the differences?
Developers describe Apache Drill as "Schema-Free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop and NoSQL". Apache Drill is a distributed MPP query layer that supports SQL and alternative query languages against NoSQL and Hadoop data storage systems. It was inspired in part by Google's Dremel. On the other hand, PostgREST is detailed as "Automatic REST API for Any Postgres Database". PostgREST serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database. It provides a cleaner, more standards-compliant, faster API than you are likely to write from scratch.
Apache Drill and PostgREST can be categorized as "Database" tools.
PostgREST is an open source tool with 12.5K GitHub stars and 585 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PostgREST's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Apache Drill
- NoSQL and Hadoop4
- Free3
- Lightning speed and simplicity in face of data jungle3
- Well documented for fast install2
- SQL interface to multiple datasources1
- Nested Data support1
- Read Structured and unstructured data1
- V1.10 released - https://drill.apache.org/1
Pros of PostgREST
- Fast, simple, powerful REST APIs from vanilla Postgres4
- JWT authentication2
- Very fast1
- Declarative role based security at the data layer1