Can Apache Drill read Apache ORC file format?

Question

Can Apache Drill read ORC files?

Answer 1

This answer was posted by user agirish in Apache Drill mailing lists. Copying here for it to be useful for this community.

Drill can read ORC format files via the Hive plugin. If you have a Hive table with underlying data stored as ORC, try and configure the Hive storage plugin in Drill [1]. And then you can attempt to query the table in Hive from Drill [2].