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 ...

Sqoop is a Cloudera-developed tool for interfacing with Hadoop via the command-line. Modelled on Google's BigTable, HBase is a big, distributed database.

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.

Cloudera, an enterprise software company that provides Apache Hadoop-based software, support and services, announced the Oct. 24 launch of Impala, a real-time query engine for Hadoop to help ...