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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.
What other technologies are related to Impala?
Impala Competitor Technologies
Hive
Hive is a SQL-like query engine for Hadoop, similar to Impala, but generally slower for interactive queries.
Spark
Spark (with Spark SQL) offers another in-memory distributed processing engine that competes with Impala for analytical workloads.
Pig
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.
Spark SQL
Spark SQL provides SQL interface for Spark, which competes with Impala.
MapReduce
MapReduce is a programming model for distributed processing on Hadoop, a less performant alternative to Impala.
Drill
Drill is a distributed query engine that can query various data sources, providing functionality similar to Impala.
PySpark
PySpark is the Python API for Spark, and thus provides similar functionality to Impala as a general execution environment
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Impala Complementary Technologies
Cloudera
Cloudera is a major vendor that distributes and supports Impala as part of its data platform.
HDFS
Impala commonly uses HDFS as its primary storage layer.
Sqoop
Sqoop is used for transferring data between Hadoop (including Impala) and relational databases.
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Which job functions commonly mention Impala?
Data Architect
1.4% of all Data Architect jobs mention Impala
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Data Engineer
1.2% of all Data Engineer jobs mention Impala
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Data, Analytics & Machine Learning
0.2% of all Data, Analytics & Machine Learning jobs mention Impala
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Software Engineer
0.1% of all Software Engineer jobs mention Impala
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Engineer
0.1% of all Engineer jobs mention Impala
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