Michael Smith c3dc7f9667 IMPALA-13147: Limit concurrency of link jobs
Configure separate compile and link pools for ninja. Configures link
parallelism based on expected memory use, which can be reduced by
setting IMPALA_MINIMAL_DEBUG_INFO=true or IMPALA_SPLIT_DEBUG_INFO=true.

Adds IMPALA_MAKE_CMD to simplify using the ninja build tool for all make
operations in scripts. Install ninja on Ubuntu. Adds a '-make' option to
buildall.sh to force using 'make'.

Adds MOLD_JOBS=1 to avoid overloading the system when trying 'mold' and
linking test binaries. However 'mold' is not selected as the default
due to test failures around SASL/GSSAPI (see IMPALA-14527).

Switches bin/jenkins/all-tests.sh to use ninja and removes the guard in
bootstrap_development.sh limiting IMPALA_BUILD_THREADS as it's no longer
needed with ninja.

SKIP_BE_TEST_PATTERN in run-backend-tests is unused (only used with
TARGET_FILESYSTEM=local) so I don't attempt to make it work with ninja.

Tested with local 'IMPALA_SPLIT_DEBUG_INFO=true buildall.sh -skiptests'
with default (make) and IMPALA_MAKE_CMD=ninja.

Change-Id: I0952dc19ace5c9c42bed0d2ffb61499656c0a2db
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/23572
Reviewed-by: Joe McDonnell <joemcdonnell@cloudera.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranav Lodha <pranav.lodha@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenkins@cloudera.com>
2025-12-15 21:43:07 +00:00

Welcome to Impala

Lightning-fast, distributed SQL queries for petabytes of data stored in open data and table formats.

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:

More about Impala

The fastest way to try out Impala is a quickstart Docker container. You can try out running queries and processing data sets in Impala on a single machine without installing dependencies. It can automatically load test data sets into Apache Kudu and Apache Parquet formats and you can start playing around with Apache Impala SQL within minutes.

To learn more about Impala as a user or administrator, or to try Impala, please visit the Impala homepage. Detailed documentation for administrators and users is available at Apache Impala documentation.

If you are interested in contributing to Impala as a developer, or learning more about Impala's internals and architecture, visit the Impala wiki.

Supported Platforms

Impala only supports Linux at the moment. Impala supports x86_64 and has experimental support for arm64 (as of Impala 4.0). Impala Requirements contains more detailed information on the minimum CPU requirements.

Supported OS Distributions

Impala runs on Linux systems only. The supported distros are

  • Ubuntu 16.04/18.04
  • CentOS/RHEL 7/8

Other systems, e.g. SLES12, may also be supported but are not tested by the community.

Export Control Notice

This distribution uses cryptographic software and may be subject to export controls. Please refer to EXPORT_CONTROL.md for more information.

Build Instructions

See Impala's developer documentation to get started.

Detailed build notes has some detailed information on the project layout and build.

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