Kudu is a columnar storage manager developed for the Apache Hadoop platform. You can use Kudu to store data in tables. Kudu has a simple data model, where the Kudu table has a primary key made up of one or more columns, each with a defined type. You can use Kudu for fast data search, updates and inserts and to perform real-time analytics on fast data.

A Kudu data object is the representation of data that is based on a Kudu object. Configure the write operation properties to determine how the Data Integration Service must write data to the Kudu. Add the write operation as a Write transformation in a mapping.

You can use Kudu objects as targets in mappings. You can validate and run mappings on the Spark engine in the Hadoop environment.