Hi Todd, thanks for your feedback! sure will be happy to update my post with your suggestions. I am not sure Apache Parquet will be clear though as some might understand it as using parquet files with Hive or Spark. What do you think about "Impala on Kudu vs Impala on Parquet"? Realistically, for BI users, Impala is the only option now with Kudu. Not many typical users will use Kudu API clients or even Spark and Hive serde for Kudu does not exist.
As for decimals, this is exciting news. Where can I found info about timestamp support? I saw this JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-5137 but I was a bit confused by the actual change. It looked like a workaround to do a conversion on the fly for impala but not actually store proper timestamps in Kudu. Maybe I misread that. I thought the idea was to add a proper support in Kudu so timestamp can be used as a type with other clients not only Impala. If you can clarify that, it would be great Boris
