Impala offers low latency, high concurrency, and a wide range of storage options, including Iceberg and open data formats. Impala scales linearly in multitenant environments. Impala integrates native Hadoop security, Kerberos authentication, and the Ranger module to ensure that the correct users and applications have access to the right data. Utilize the same file and data formats and metadata, security, and resource management frameworks as your Hadoop deployment, with no redundant infrastructure or data conversion/duplication. Impala uses the same metadata driver and ODBC driver as Apache Hive. Impala, like Hive, supports SQL. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. Impala allows more users to interact with data, whether they are using SQL queries or BI apps, through a single repository. Metadata is also stored from the source of the data until it has been analyzed.