This document summarizes a presentation about managing Apache HAWQ, an open source massively parallel processing (MPP) database, using Apache Ambari. It discusses how Ambari integrates with HAWQ for installation, configuration, topology recommendations, high availability, alerts and more. Challenges in the integration are addressed as HAWQ is not part of the Hortonworks Data Platform stack. The presentation recommends future work for Ambari like supporting automated HAWQ upgrades and enabling dynamic configuration reloads without requiring a service restart.