Microsoft demonstrated the ability for its Power BI business intelligence tool to query datasets with up to 1 trillion rows, up from its current threshold of 10 billion.

MariaDB®Corporation today announced the certification and immediate availability of the MariaDB Direct Query Adapter in Microsoft Power BI. MariaDB an ...

The service seeks to compete with natural language BI solutions like ThoughtSpot, AnswerRocket, Arcadia Data's Search, Tableau's Ask Data and Microsoft Power BI's Q&A.

After all, Hive has provided a SQL Query abstraction – and BI tool compatibility – over Hadoop for some time, so why would Impala be significant? In fact why is Cloudera even bothering with it?