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Drill alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Drill

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

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#1

Presto

Similarity 155Trust 85Excellent 100

The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data

17K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add prestodb/presto
#2

Hive

Similarity 153Trust 86Excellent 100

Apache Hive

6.0K starsAug 26, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/hive
#3

Calcite

Similarity 145Trust 86Excellent 100

Apache Calcite

5.2K starsAug 27, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/calcite
#4

Spark

Similarity 143Trust 87Excellent 100

Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing

44K starsSep 9, 2026 pushdata-analysisScalaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/spark
#5

Flink

Similarity 140Trust 87Excellent 100

Apache Flink

26K starsAug 26, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/flink
#6

Beam

Similarity 138Trust 88Excellent 100

Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.

8.6K starsAug 26, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/beam
#7

Ignite

Similarity 137Trust 86Excellent 99

Apache Ignite

5.1K starsAug 26, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/ignite
#8

Linkis

Similarity 136Trust 86Excellent 98

Apache Linkis builds a computation middleware layer to facilitate connection, governance and orchestration between the upper applications and the underlying data engines.

3.4K starsAug 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/linkis
#9

Mybatis 3

Similarity 131Trust 85Excellent 100

MyBatis SQL mapper framework for Java

20K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add mybatis/mybatis-3
#10

Starrocks

Similarity 131Trust 87Excellent 100

The world's fastest open query engine for sub-second analytics both on and off the data lakehouse. With the flexibility to support nearly any scenario, StarRocks provides best-in-class performance for multi-dimensional analytics, real-time analytics, and ad-hoc queries. A Linux Foundation project.

12K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add StarRocks/starrocks
#11

Trino

Similarity 131Trust 86Excellent 100

Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)

13K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add trinodb/trino
#12

ClickHouse

Similarity 126Trust 85Excellent 100

ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system

48K starsJun 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add ClickHouse/ClickHouse
#13

Datafusion

Similarity 124Trust 86Excellent 100

Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine

9.2K starsAug 27, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add apache/datafusion
#14

Dbeaver

Similarity 124Trust 85Excellent 100

Free universal database tool and SQL client

51K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add dbeaver/dbeaver
#15

Sqlglot

Similarity 124Trust 84Excellent 99

Python SQL Parser and Transpiler

9.3K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add tobymao/sqlglot
#16

Flyway

Similarity 122Trust 84Excellent 99

Flyway by Redgate • Database Migrations Made Easy.

9.9K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add flyway/flyway

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