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Impala

Last updated May 14, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Impala?

Apache Impala is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL query engine that runs natively in Apache Hadoop. It's designed for interactive SQL queries on large datasets stored in HDFS, Apache Kudu, Amazon S3, and other storage systems. Impala is known for its low latency and high concurrency, making it suitable for real-time analytics and business intelligence applications requiring fast query responses on big data.

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What other technologies are related to Impala?

Impala Competitor Technologies

Hive is a SQL-like query engine for Hadoop, similar to Impala, but generally slower for interactive queries.

mentioned alongside Impala in 12% (12.1k) of relevant job posts

Spark (with Spark SQL) offers another in-memory distributed processing engine that competes with Impala for analytical workloads.

mentioned alongside Impala in 3% (9.8k) of relevant job posts

Pig provides a higher-level language for data processing on Hadoop, which is an alternative, less performant, way to achieve similar data processing tasks as Impala. Impala is usually preferred for interactive queries.

mentioned alongside Impala in 14% (1.6k) of relevant job posts

Spark SQL provides SQL interface for Spark, which competes with Impala.

mentioned alongside Impala in 8% (1.2k) of relevant job posts

MapReduce is a programming model for distributed processing on Hadoop, a less performant alternative to Impala.

mentioned alongside Impala in 7% (1.1k) of relevant job posts

Drill is a distributed query engine that can query various data sources, providing functionality similar to Impala.

mentioned alongside Impala in 20% (299) of relevant job posts

PySpark is the Python API for Spark, and thus provides similar functionality to Impala as a general execution environment

mentioned alongside Impala in 2% (2.4k) of relevant job posts

Impala Complementary Technologies

Cloudera is a major vendor that distributes and supports Impala as part of its data platform.

mentioned alongside Impala in 16% (3.3k) of relevant job posts

Impala commonly uses HDFS as its primary storage layer.

mentioned alongside Impala in 15% (3.5k) of relevant job posts

Sqoop is used for transferring data between Hadoop (including Impala) and relational databases.

mentioned alongside Impala in 27% (1.9k) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Impala?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Impala

Orgs mentioning Impala

Engineer

0% (7.6k) job posts

96 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (7.1k) job posts

496 organizations

Data, Analytics & Machine Learning

0% (4.1k) job posts

147 organizations

Data Engineer

1% (3.5k) job posts

876 organizations

Data Architect

1% (583) job posts

230 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Impala?

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Finance and Insurance

Finance and Insurance

Finance and Insurance

Finance and Insurance

Bank of America

Finance and Insurance

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