Cloudera Impala Brings SQL Querying To Hadoop | Big Data [InformationWeek]

NoSQL => Now Optimized for SQL?

"Cloudera on Tuesday announced the general release of its Impala query engine for Hadoop after six months of beta testing by more than 40 customers.
It's the first so-called SQL-on-Hadoop product to reach general release. But with a bevy of such systems on the way -- including options from IBM (Big SQL), Hortonworks (Stinger), MapR (Drill), Pivotal (HAWQ) and Teradata (SQL-H) -- the question is whether Impala will stand out as the best fix for Hadoop's shortcomings."

Cloudera Impala Brings SQL Querying To Hadoop | Big Data