Impala: Another Google Inspired Platform Enters The Mainstream Data World

Amazon Web Services has added support for Impala, the Google inspired query tool developed by big datastartupCloudera. Itprovides real-time, parallel processing for large amounts of data.With Impala, a developer can load new or access existing data to run their queries using an SQL-like language on AWS Elastic MapReduce clusters. Its faster, more accessible and shows the increasing use of SQL in Hadoop, the open-source system for distributed computing. In a broader view, Impala reflects how Google deeply influences the market and its inventors to create new data platforms and a potentially richer application ecosystem.