[DRILL-178] Update JSON reader to support reading distributed, compressed json files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0-m1
• Assignee: Timothy Chen
• Reporter: Jacques Nadeau
• Created: 19/Aug/13 23:22
• Updated: 09/Oct/13 18:09
• Resolved: 29/Aug/13 03:56

Description

The JSON reader supports local file system reads but doesn't support dfs access or block awareness. These are needed for making the JSON storage engine work in distributed mode. Much of this work can leverage/be based on the work within the Parquet storage engine.