# Cloudera Impala · compute · 2012

Revision 1 (11 October 2026) · Modeled snapshot · through 8 October 2026.

All figures are research-informed estimates of analytical activity. Significant errors may remain; decimal places do not imply measurement precision.

0.05% of the full compute layer.

[Cloudera Impala](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/compute/impala.md): historical names and annual shares.

Impala’s public beta arrived in October 2012 and queried text and SequenceFiles on HDFS. This 0.05% slice represents beta activity, not a measured adoption share; Parquet support follows in 2013.

Connections below describe the whole Cloudera Impala engine. Access and storage mixes are estimated separately; they are not a joint interface-to-storage distribution.

## Access use within this engine

| Option | Share of engine activity | Share of full access layer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [ODBC](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/access/odbc.md) | 30% | <0.1% |
| [JDBC](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/access/jdbc.md) | 30% | <0.1% |
| [Cloudera Impala vendor-specific interface](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/access/vendor-impala.md) | 20% | <0.1% |
| [Python DB-API (other drivers)](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/access/python.md) | 10% | <0.1% |
| [Other language/portable APIs](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/access/other-api.md) | 10% | <0.1% |

## Storage use within this engine

| Option | Share of engine activity | Share of full storage layer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [HDFS text/SequenceFile/RCFile/Avro](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/storage/hdfs-row.md) | 100% | <0.1% |

[All percentages for 2012](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2012.md)

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