Starting Drill on Windows
Complete the following steps to launch the Drill:
- Open the Windows command prompt.
- Navigate to the Drill installation folder, for example:
cd \Users\user1\drill_repo\apache-drill-1.19.0 - Go to the
bindirectory, for example:cd bin - Enter either of the following commands to start Drill:
sqlline.bat -u "jdbc:drill:zk=local"-
drill-embedded.bat(Supported in Drill 1.16 and later.)C:\Users\user1\drill_repo\apache-drill-1.19.0\bin>drill-embedded.bat DRILL_ARGS - " -u jdbc:drill:zk=local" HADOOP_HOME not detected... HBASE_HOME not detected... Calculating Drill classpath... Apache Drill 1.19.0-SNAPSHOT "Drill never goes out of style." apache drill>
You can run a test query to verify that Drill is running, for example:
//Drill's classpath contains sample data, including an employee.json file that you can query. Switch schema to cp, for classpath.
apache drill>use cp;
|------|--------------------------------|
| ok | summary |
|------|--------------------------------|
| true | Default schema changed to [cp] |
|------|--------------------------------|
//Query the employee.json file in the classpath.
apache drill (cp)>SELECT * FROM cp.`employee.json` LIMIT 1;
|-------------|--------------|------------|-----------|-------------|----------------|----------|---------------|------------|-----------------------|---------|---------------|-----------------|----------------|--------|-------------------|
| employee_id | full_name | first_name | last_name | position_id | position_title | store_id | department_id | birth_date | hire_date | salary | supervisor_id | education_level | marital_status | gender | management_role |
|-------------|--------------|------------|-----------|-------------|----------------|----------|---------------|------------|-----------------------|---------|---------------|-----------------|----------------|--------|-------------------|
| 1 | Sheri Nowmer | Sheri | Nowmer | 1 | President | 0 | 1 | 1961-08-26 | 1994-12-01 00:00:00.0 | 80000.0 | 0 | Graduate Degree | S | F | Senior Management |
|-------------|--------------|------------|-----------|-------------|----------------|----------|---------------|------------|-----------------------|---------|---------------|-----------------|----------------|--------|-------------------|
For a short tutorial that you can run in Drill, see Drill in 10 Minutes.
Note that you can use the schema option in the sqlline command to specify a storage plugin. Specifying the storage plugin when you start up eliminates the need to specify the storage plugin in the query. For example, this command specifies the dfs storage plugin:
sqlline.bat –u "jdbc:drill:zk=local;schema=dfs"
If you start Drill on one network, and then want to use Drill on another network, such as your home network, restart Drill.
Exiting the Drill Shell
To exit the Drill shell, issue the following command:
!quit