I visited Cloudera Friday for, among other things, a chat about Impala with Marcel Kornacker and colleagues. Highlights included: Impala is meant to someday be a competitive MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) analytic RDBMS. At the moment, it is not one. For example, Impala lacks any meaningful form of workload management or query optimization. While Impala will run against any HDFS (Hadoop Distr
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