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Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop

Summary: Impala: an open-source MPP SQL engine for Hadoop providing low-latency, high-concurrency execution for BI/read-mostly analytic queries where batch frameworks (e.g., Hive) fall short. Paper presents architecture/components and empirical superiority vs other SQL-on-Hadoop systems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
271
Venue
CIDR
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00022216002
Overall Rank
476 | 96.70%
DOI
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