https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Wich-sql-engine-best-solution-to-use-with-CDP/m-p/301550#M220736 <P>I think the reality is now that both are great technologies and the overlap in use cases is pretty big - there are a lot of SQL workloads where either can work.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I just wanted to clarify a few points.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Impala does support querying complex types from Parquet -&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/impala_complex_types.html" target="_blank">https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/impala_complex_types.html</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>We also are working on a transparent query retry feature in Impala that should be released soon.</P> Sat, 15 Aug 2020 20:03:51 GMT Tim Armstrong 2020-08-15T20:03:51Z