Wanna Race? Cloudera Says Impala is Faster than Hive and Proprietary RDMS [CMS Wire]

From a snapshot of Cloudera's expanding ambition; see Impala Performance Update: Now Reaching DBMS-Class Speed for Cloudera's test results

"Disruptive technology is one thing. Disrupting the way people do mission critical work is quite another. Cloudera seems to understand the difference. That’s why its EDH strategy aims toward giving data scientists and BI workers an ability to access more data at petabyte scale using the tools (such as Tableau and Microstrategies) that they’re already familiar with.
Not only that, but the data that lands in the Enterprise Data Hub is immediately available, no Extract Transform and Load (ETL) step required, as is the case with many other vendors who offer SQL on Hadoop capabilities."

Wanna Race? Cloudera Says Impala is Faster than Hive and Proprietary RDMS