Hello CDH, Impala and Cloudera Manager Users,
*Impala 1.0:*
We are pleased to announce the general release of Cloudera Impala (version:
1.0). This is the first generally available version of Impala and contains
the following:
- Support for a subset of ANSI-92 SQL (compatible with Hive SQL),
including CREATE, ALTER, SELECT, INSERT, JOIN, and subqueries
- Support for partitioned joins, fully distributed aggregations, and
fully distributed top-n queries
- Support for a variety of data formats: Hadoop native (Apache Avro,
SequenceFile, RCFile with Snappy, GZIP, BZIP, or uncompressed), text
(uncompressed or LZO-compressed), and Parquet (Snappy or uncompressed), the
new state-of-the-art columnar storage format
- Support for all CDH4 64-bit packages: RHEL 6.2/5.7, Ubuntu, Debian,
SLES
- Connectivity via JDBC, ODBC, Hue GUI, or command-line shell
- Kerberos authentication and MR/Impala resource isolation
- For a full list of features and fixes please see the Release
Notes<http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/Impala/latest/Cloudera-Impala-Release-Notes/Cloudera-Impala-Release-Notes.html>
*Cloudera Manager 4.5.2:*
We are also announcing the Cloudera Manager 4.5.2 release, which contains
support for Impala 1.0 and several key bug fixes. Please see the full release
notes<http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CM4Ent/4.5.1/Cloudera-Manager-Enterprise-Edition-4.5.x-Release-Notes/Cloudera-Manager-Enterprise-Edition-4.html>.
You can find download
information<https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/SUPPORT/Cloudera+Manager+Downloads>,
installation and upgrade
documentation<http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CM4Free/4.5.2/Cloudera-Manager-Free-Edition-Installation-Guide/Cloudera-Manager-Free-Edition-Installation-Guide.html>
on
our website. If you are using Cloudera Manager for managing Impala, you
must upgrade both your instance of Impala to 1.0 and Cloudera Manager to
4.5.2.
*To Get Started on Impala:*
For those of you who have not used Impala previously, here is how you get
started:
- Use Cloudera Manager 4.5.2 to deploy Impala. Impala management is
supported in both the Free and Enterprise versions of Cloudera Manager. The
Free Edition instructions can be found here:Installing Impala with
Cloudera Manager Free
Edition<http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CM4Free/latest/Cloudera-Manager-Free-Edition-Installation-Guide/cmfeig_topic_7.html>.
The Enterprise Edition instructions can be found here: Installing Impala
with Cloudera
Manager<http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CM4Ent/latest/Cloudera-Manager-Enterprise-Edition-Installation-Guide/cmeeig_topic_7.html>
- To deploy Impala without Cloudera Manager support, visit Cloudera's
download page <https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/SUPPORT/Downloads> and
follow the instructions in this section: Installing Impala without
Cloudera Manager
<http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/Impala/latest/Installing-and-Using-Impala/ciiu_install.html>.
Please note that you need to have CDH 4.1 or later installed on
RHEL5.7/6.2, Centos5.7/6.2, SUSE 11 with Service Pack 1 or later, Ubuntu
10.04/12.04, or Debian 6.03. For more information, see Cloudera Impala
Requirements<http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/Impala/latest/Installing-and-Using-Impala/ciiu_prereqs.html>
.
*Resources:*
- Impala FAQ<http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/Impala/latest/Cloudera-Impala-Frequently-Asked-Questions/Cloudera-Impala-Frequently-Asked-Questions.html>
- Download the Cloudera QuickStart
VM<https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/SUPPORT/Cloudera+QuickStart+VM>
which
includes a VM of Impala. The VM includes instructions that show you the
power of Impala.
- E-learning course on "An Introduction To
Impala"<http://training.cloudera.com/elearning/impala/>
- Access the Impala source code at: https://github.com/cloudera/impala.
- Access the Impala
documentation<http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/documentation/cloudera-impala/cloudera-impala-documentation-v1-latest.html>
.
- Cloudera Manager
download<https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/SUPPORT/Cloudera+Manager+Downloads>
.
- Access the Cloudera Manager
documentation<http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CM4Free/4.5.2/Cloudera-Manager-Free-Edition-Installation-Guide/Cloudera-Manager-Free-Edition-Installation-Guide.html>
.
*Feedback:*
If you have feedback, please continue to use the user groups and external
jiras:
- The Impala user
group<https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/impala-user>.
Please use this to ask questions and provide feedback on Impala.
- The Impala Jira <http://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA>. Impala
feature requests and bug reports are welcome.
- The Cloudera Manager user
group<https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/forum/#!forum/scm-users>.
Please use this to ask questions and provide feedback on Cloudera Manager
