Lightning-fast, distributed SQL queries for petabytes of data stored in Apache Hadoop clusters.
Impala is a modern, massively-distributed, massively-parallel, C++ query engine that lets you analyze, transform and combine data from a variety of data sources:
To learn more about Impala as a business user, or to try Impala live or in a VM, please visit the Impala homepage. Detailed documentation for administrators and users is available at Apache Impala documentation.
If you are interested in contributing to Impala as a developer, or learning more about Impala's internals and architecture, visit the Impala wiki.
Impala only supports Linux at the moment.
This distribution uses cryptographic software and may be subject to export controls. Please refer to EXPORT_CONTROL.md for more information.
See Impala's developer documentation to get started.
Detailed build notes has some detailed information on the project layout and build.