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6.1 Development
This section contains information related to application development for ecosystem components and MapR products including MapR Database (binary and JSON), MapR Filesystem, and MapR Streams.
Ecosystem Components
The following sections provide information about each open source project that MapR supports.
Drill
Working with Drill
Connecting Drill to Data Sources
Choose and configure storage plugins to enable Drill to connect to a data source.
MapR Database Format Plugin for Drill
Drill supports access to MapR Database JSON and binary tables through the maprdb format plugin.

MapR Database Format Plugin for Drill

Drill supports access to MapR Database JSON and binary tables through the maprdb format plugin.

When you install Drill, the maprdb format is automatically defined within the default dfs storage plugin configuration to make MapR Database a consumable data source for Drill. You can access the dfs storage plugin configuration from the Storage page in the Drill Web UI.

When you install Drill on MapR, Drill provides some options specific to the maprdb format plugin that you can change or configure. You can modify these options in the following places:

For additional information about storage plugins, see Plugin Configuration Basics.