Kudu limitations and roadmap

Overview of supported features, current limitations, and planned future enhancements for Apache Kudu.

Apache Kudu supports lowercase table names, application-level default column values, non-managed statistics, Hive Metastore integration, and custom scanner configurations.

Limitations

The following limitations apply when working with Kudu:

  • Only lowercase table and column names are supported in Kudu.
  • Adding default column values is not supported.
  • Collecting managed statistics by using the ANALYZE statement is not supported.

Future tasks

The following features and improvements are planned for future releases:

  • Supporting Kudu Hive Metastore (HMS) integration for schema emulation.
  • Supporting Kudu scanner-specific configurations.