I have definitely have shared that sentiment. However, Apache didn't create this project; it's from Cloudera originally, and they've got a pretty good track rec

I have definitely have shared that sentiment. However, Apache didn't create this project; it's from Cloudera originally, and they've got a pretty good track record. In this case, Kudu is more of a database/store on top of which analytics products (for example, this is a best-in-class engine for Impala, allowing fast read/write) can run. I wouldn't quite say it's like HDFS, which is more of a document store/distributed file-system.