Cloudera Internal Project Kick-off (Project Kudu)

Facing the inherent limitations of existing Hadoop storage for hybrid workloads, a small team led by Todd Lipcon at Cloudera began sketching out a new storage engine that could handle both fast analytical queries and rapid data mutations.

Significance

This marked the conceptual birth of Kudu, initiating the research and development that would address the critical 'impedance mismatch' problem.