Project Kudu Unveiled at Strata + Hadoop World

Cloudera publicly announced 'Project Kudu,' a new storage engine designed to bridge the gap between high-throughput batch processing (like HDFS) and low-latency random access (like HBase) for analytical workloads.

Significance

This marked the first public disclosure of Kudu, generating significant buzz in the big data community and signaling Cloudera's ambition to solve a critical data management challenge.