Getting Started with Impala Interactive SQL for Apache Hadoop by John Russell; O'Reilly Media

Impala is open source and a query engine that runs on Apache Hadoop. With Impala, you can query data, whether stored in HDFS or Apache HBase – including SELECT, JOIN, and aggregate functions – in real time. If you are looking for a book getting start with it - Getting Started with Impala Interactive SQL for Apache Hadoop by John Russell (@max_webster). Assist readers to write, tune, and port SQL queries and other statements for a Big Data environment, using Impala. The SQL examples in this book start from a simple base for easy comprehension, then build toward best practices that demonstrate high performance and scalability. For readers, you can download QuickStart VMs and install. After that, you can use it with examples in a book.
In a book, it doesn't assist readers to install Impala or how to solve the issue from installation or configuration. It has 5 chapters and not much for the number of pages, but enough to guide how to use Impala (Interactive SQL) and has good examples. With chapter 5 - Tutorials and Deep Dives, that it's highlight in a book and the example in a chapter that is very useful.
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This book assists readers.

• Learn how Impala integrates with a wide range of Hadoop components
• Attain high performance and scalability for huge data sets on production clusters
• Explore common developer tasks, such as porting code to Impala and optimizing performance
• Use tutorials for working with billion-row tables, date- and time-based values, and other techniques
• Learn how to transition from rigid schemas to a flexible model that evolves as needs change
• Take a deep dive into joins and the roles of statistics

[test01:21000] > select "Surachart Opun" Name,  NOW() ;
Query: select "Surachart Opun" Name,  NOW()
+----------------+-------------------------------+
| name           | now()                         |
+----------------+-------------------------------+
| Surachart Opun | 2014-10-25 23:34:03.217635000 |
+----------------+-------------------------------+
Returned 1 row(s) in 0.14s

Book: Getting Started with Impala Interactive SQL for Apache Hadoop

Author: John Russell (@max_webster)