Apache Drill license, foundation and stars

Query and processing engines · Apache 2.0 (open source) · 2,027 stars

Apache Drill is a distributed MPP query layer for self describing data

License history

Apache 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2012.

No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).

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