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 ...

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 ...

Early adopters want tools, but the bulk of the market wants products. Big data doesn’t change this principle. It is natural that in the early stages the raw power of tools should be celebrated. That ...

Hadoop software distributor MapR Technologies is launching a partner program to expand its channel presence and capture what the company described as a fast-growing number of sales opportunities for ...

Remember when Big Data used to be all about Hadoop, and then Spark, Kafka and other tools, evolving into real-time analysis and other breakthroughs to help enterprises glean important business ...

In the Hadoop world, we've noted that MapR has always marched to a different drummer. Its core file system is the building block for its Converged Platform, where you can squash the Lambda ...

MapR Technologies Inc. today announced the upcoming addition of an event streaming system to its Apache Hadoop-based Big Data distribution, improving real-time analytics capabilities in a rebranded, ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 15, 2012) - MapR Technologies, Inc., the Hadoop technology leader, announced today the appointment of Pinaki Mukerji to the position of vice president of engineering.

MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualize big data applications and get better support at the same time. The companies have collaborated to certify ...