@Roberto Sancho Did you copied the MySQL driver inside drill/lib? For MySQL, Drill has been tested with MySQL's mysql-connector-java-5.1.37-bin.jar driver. Copy this to all drill nodes. ... View more

@Dennis Fridlyand I have resolved this issue by following below link. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21129020/how-to-fix-unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte ... View more

@John Cod Can you please share the screenshot of http://master:8080 UI and command you ran along with full spark-shell logs? ... View more

Hi @sanka sandeep Please accept this answer if it helped you. ... View more

@John Cod Yes, you need to specify the spark master URI. spark-shell --master spark://masterhost:7077 ... View more

@Smart Solutions Did you tried the workaround? ... View more

Start from HDP Ambari? which is not available:) As mentioned in the same article, here is the manual steps of Drill installation. Grab latest version of drill wget http://getdrill.org/drill/download/apache-drill-1.2.0.tar.gz tar xvfz apache-drill-1.2.0.tar.gz /root/drill/apache-drill-1.2.0 cd /root/drill/apache-drill-1.2.0 Start Drill in distributed mode ( You can start in embedded mode too) [root@node1 conf]# ../bin/drillbit.sh start starting drillbit, logging to /root/drill/apache-drill-1.2.0/log/drillbit.out Drill Web Console - http://host:8047 Does that make sense? ... View more