The 411 from the 2012 Hadoop World and Cloudera
With the completion of Hadoop World 2012 in New York City, it was no surprise that there would be a flurry of announcements from Cloudera and of course, exciting news for Apache Hadoop practitioners!
Beyond the move to a new logo and tagline (which is quite nice) and a brand new Cloudera website design (very nice!), Cloudera’s biggest announcement focused on what had traditionally been a weakness for open source Apache Hadoop: its focus on batch-processing queries. Enter Impala, a real-time query engine that allows users to directly query data in HDFS and HBase through Hive SQL. And the beauty of it all is that Impala is 100% open-source code and currently available as a beta release. Expect the production release to hit in early 2013.
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