Welcome to the twenty-second edition of the Kudu Weekly Update. This weekly blog post covers ongoing development and news in the Apache Kudu project.

Welcome to the twenty-first edition of the Kudu Weekly Update. Astute readers will notice that the weekly blog posts have been not-so-weekly of late – in fact, it has been nearly two months since the previous post as I and others have focused on releases, conferences, etc.

So, rather than covering just this past week, this post will cover highlights of the progress since the 1.0 release in mid-September. If you’re interested in learning about progress prior to that release, check the release notes.

This week in New York, O’Reilly and Cloudera will be hosting Strata+Hadoop World

1. If you’re interested in Kudu, there will be several opportunities to learn more, both from the open source development team as well as some companies who are already adopting Kudu for their use cases.

The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.0.0!

This latest version adds several new features, including:

I had the pleasure of interning with the Apache Kudu team at Cloudera this summer. This project was my summer contribution to Kudu: a restructuring of the scan path to speed up queries.