Impala is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL engine designed and built from the ground up to run on Hadoop platforms. i Impala provides fast, low-latency response times appropriate for business intelligence applications and ad hoc data analysis. Impala’s performance matches, and in most cases, surpasses commercial MPP engines.
Impala started out as a project within Cloudera. It was donated to the Apache Software Foundation and accepted into the Apache incubator on December 2, 2015. Prior to joining Cloudera, Impala’s architect and tech lead, Marcel Kornacker, was a software ...
