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Impala vs Singer: What are the differences?
Developers describe Impala as "Real-time Query for Hadoop". Impala is a modern, open source, MPP SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop. Impala is shipped by Cloudera, MapR, and Amazon. With Impala, you can query data, whether stored in HDFS or Apache HBase – including SELECT, JOIN, and aggregate functions – in real time. On the other hand, Singer is detailed as "Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL". Singer powers data extraction and consolidation for all of your organization’s tools: advertising platforms, web analytics, payment processors, email service providers, marketing automation, databases, and more.
Impala and Singer can be categorized as "Big Data" tools.
Impala and Singer are both open source tools. It seems that Impala with 2.18K GitHub stars and 824 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Singer with 178 GitHub stars and 40 GitHub forks.
Pros of Apache Impala
- Super fast11
- Massively Parallel Processing1
- Load Balancing1
- Replication1
- Scalability1
- Distributed1
- High Performance1
- Open Sourse1
Pros of Singer
- Multiple inputs "taps"1
- Open source1