Kudu is an open-source storage engine for the Hadoop ecosystem. It balances the advantages of both HDFS and HBase, by allowing for performant random-access queries while also providing fast writes and scans for analytics.
Todd Lipcon is a software engineer at Cloudera who leads the development of Kudu.
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