Apache Impala is the open source, native analytic database for Apache Hadoop. Impala is shipped by Cloudera, MapR, Oracle, and Amazon. Impala provides low latency and high concurrency for BI/analytic queries on Hadoop. In Strategy, it is one of a wide range of connections that allows business users to connect to, prepare, and visualize information from various Big Data environments.
Strategy uses Impala’s Interactive SQL to perform fast, interactive, SQL-like queries and deliver ROLAP support for big data. This gives Strategy unbeatable in-memory power as it delivers the next generation of in-memory analytics, by leveraging cubes that can be partitioned and support parallel processing. In conjunction with the right interactive SQL driver, Strategy analytics produce unrivaled response times.
From a security point of view, The Strategy platform supports LDAP or Kerberos authentication for users to connect to Cloudera Impala as well as delegated access via Kerberos to Cloudera Impala.
