Engineers from across the Apache Hadoop community are collaborating to establish Arrow as a de-facto standard for columnar in-memory processing and interchange. Here’s how it works. Apache Arrow is an in-memory data structure specification for use by engineers building data systems. It has several key benefits: A columnar memory-layout permitting O(1) random access. The layout is highly cache-efficient in […]
Impala’s speed now beats the fastest SQL-on-Hadoop alternatives. Test for yourself! Since the initial beta release of Cloudera Impala more than one year ago (October 2012), we’ve been committed to regularly updating you about its evolution into the standard for running interactive SQL queries across data in Apache Hadoop and Hadoop-based enterprise data hubs. To […]