Hadoop vendor Cloudera is preparing its own Apache-licensed Hadoop storage engine: Kudu is said to combine the best of both HDFS and HBase in a single package and could make Hadoop into a general ...

Impala, part of Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) 4.1, is a native SQL query engine that runs on Hadoop clusters, providing easy query access to raw HDFS data and to HBase databases.

While legacy Cloudera customers can choose to core Hadoop components such as HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, and HBase–and there are plenty of enterprises who spent millions building with them and will rely on ...