Tableau + Cloudera Impala: Bring Your Hadoop Data To Life!

Today, our friends at Cloudera have formally launched their SQL-on-hadoop offering called "Impala". Did you know that Tableau was one of the first ISVs to support Impala?

Impala bypasses the Map-Reduce layer in Hadoop resulting in much faster query response times than Hive. I predict that most customers wanting to do ad-hoc visual analytics on Hadoop will turn to a technology like Impala to provide a more interactive and dynamic user experience when working with their data.

The following video provides you with a short overview of Tableau's native Impala connector. See how easy it is to connect to and bring your hadoop data to life with Tableau.

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We'd love to hear what you're doing with Tableau and Impala, along with any feedback you have about the connector.

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