When it emerged from stealth in 2011, MapR was an outlier in the Hadoop community. At the time, Hadoop was defined largely by two projects adapted from Google research: MapReduce, which introduced ...

The company has taken a different tack with its distribution than competitors Cloudera and Hortonworks-unlike it competitors, MapR has committed to backward compatibility, enabling organizations to ...

MapR Technologies Inc. has just made its Hadoop distribution available on Amazon Web Services via the AWS Marketplace. With the availability of MapR on AWS, enterprises now have another quick and easy ...

MapR Technologies is pursuing a unique strategy in the world of Big Data technology. Instead of focusing on offering a pure open source distribution like Hortonworks, or on adding additional ...

Auto-synchronizes storage, database and search within and across data centers SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 9, 2015– MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for ...

Enterprise data sets have gotten so voluminous that they can’t fit into even the largest data warehouses anymore, many businesses find. Now, companies running these overstuffed data stores have an ...

It is no secret that the big three commercial Hadoop distributors have been running into headwinds in recent years as more workloads and data have made their way into the public cloud and that these ...

Open source Hadoop vendor MapR Technologies Inc. is expanding the functionality of its Big Data platform with the release of MapR 4.1, with the headline feature being new table replication features ...

MapR is one of several companies built on the open source Hadoop platform, and as such it has a bit of competition in the space. Today, possibly in an effort to create some separation from its better ...

The use of Hadoop-based open source big-data technology continues to grow among enterprises, and today MapR Technologies, one of the bigger startups in the space, has announced another $50 million in ...