 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | | | Of all the news out of last week's Strata Conference in New York, the biggest headline was Cloudera's introduction of Impala, a new component it's developing for Hadoop environments designed to support real-time querying. Developed in stealth mode and now in public beta, the software takes on one of Hadoop's biggest flaws: batch-oriented processing delays and poor access to data.
Impala is an interactive-speed SQL query engine that runs on existing Hadoop infrastructure. It makes all the data in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Apache HBase database tables accessible for real-time querying. With that it promises to open up Hadoop to relational databases and conventional business intelligence (BI) tools that rely on SQL querying.
Hadoop already offers such access via Apache Hive, but that query interface suffers from poor performance and limited SQL support. With Impala, Cloudera is promising a much better answer.
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