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https://www.quora.com/Is-Cloudera-Impala-dead
https://www.quora.com/Is-Hive-necessary-when-Cloudera-Impala-exists
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/10/cloudera-impala-real-time-queries-in-apache-hadoop-for-real/
https://hortonworks.com/blog/cloudera-just-shoot-impala/ Stinger also gave rise to Apache Tez on YARN, a data processing engine inspired by Microsoft’s Dryad paper, that’s being used by Hive for enabling its interactive SQL queries. Microsoft also brought innovations from SQL Server to Hive including Hive’s new Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) file format and vectorized query execution which enable impressive CPU and throughput gains.*