Performance is one of the key, if not the most important deciding criterion, in choosing a Cloud Data Warehouse service. In today’s fast changing world, enterprises have to make data driven decisions quickly and for that they rely heavily on their data warehouse service. In this blog post, we compare Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) using Apache Hive-LLAP to Microsoft HDInsight (also powered by Apache Hive-LLAP) on Azure using the TPC-DS 2.9 benchmark.

Some of the most powerful results come from combining complementary superpowers, and the “dynamic duo” of Apache Hive LLAP and Apache Impala, both included in Cloudera Data Warehouse, is further evidence of this. Both Impala and Hive can operate at an unprecedented and massive scale, with many petabytes of data. Both are 100% Open source, so you can avoid vendor lock-in while you use your favorite BI tools, and benefit from community-driven innovation.