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Impala has a hardcoded limit of 1GB in size for StringVal. If the length of the string exceeds 1GB, Impala will simply mark the StringVal as NULL (i.e. is_null = true). It's important that string functions or built-in UDFs check this field before accessing the pointer or Impala may end up doing null pointer access, leading to crashes. Change-Id: I55777487fff15a521818e39b4f93a8a242770ec2 Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/2786 Reviewed-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@cloudera.com> Tested-by: Internal Jenkins
Welcome to Impala
Lightning-fast, distributed SQL queries for petabytes of data stored in Apache Hadoop clusters.
Impala is a modern, massively-distributed, massively-parallel, C++ query engine that lets you analyze, transform and combine data from a variety of data sources:
- Best of breed performance and scalability.
- Support for data stored in HDFS, Apache HBase and Amazon S3.
- Wide analytic SQL support, including window functions and subqueries.
- On-the-fly code generation using LLVM to generate CPU-efficient code tailored specifically to each individual query.
- Support for the most commonly-used Hadoop file formats, including the Apache Parquet (incubating) project.
- Apache-licensed, 100% open source.
More about Impala
To learn more about Impala as a business user, or to try Impala live or in a VM, please visit the Impala homepage.
If you are interested in contributing to Impala as a developer, or learning more about Impala's internals and architecture, visit the Impala wiki.
Building Impala
This Apache Incubator repository is currently not buildable but has the complete source code for Impala minus some third-party dependences. See https://github.com/cloudera/Impala for the buildable Impala source and https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3223 to track progress on making this repository buildable.