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Can we use ORC fileformat in Impala?

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Also can we access ORC table stored in Hive metastore in Impala.

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Impala supports RCFile but as of CDH 5.7 which is the latest at the time of writing there is no support for ORC.

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In Hulu, we have supported ORC format in our branch of Impala. We're planning to contribute it to the community. Please track this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-5717