This setup runs Apache Impala 4 via the upstream "quickstart" Docker images, orchestrated with docker-compose:

• hms — Hive Metastore (Derby-backed; no MySQL/Postgres required)
• statestored — cluster-membership broker
• catalogd — metadata cache
• impalad-1 — single combined coordinator + executor

The benchmark therefore reproduces on a single VM with nothing beyond Docker installed.

Hardware requirement: Impala's C++ daemons (statestored, catalogd, impalad) refuse to start on a CPU without AVX — they log

This machine does not meet the minimum requirements for Impala functionality. The CPU does not support AVX

and exit. Only AVX-capable x86_64 machines work; Graviton/aarch64 hosts (including under QEMU emulation, which doesn't expose AVX) are not supported.

The ClickBench hits.parquet file stores EventTime, ClientEventTime and LocalEventTime as Unix-epoch BIGINT values and EventDate as an INT count of days since 1970-01-01. create.sql registers the parquet file as an external table (hits_raw) and then exposes a hits view that converts those columns to TIMESTAMP and DATE, so queries.sql matches the canonical ClickBench query text.