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MapR File System selected by SAP for cloud storage layer

MapR's file system was its original differentiator in the Hadoop market: unlike standard HDFS, which is optimized for reading, and supports writing to a file only once, MapR-FS fully supports the read ...
The Next Platform

Kafka Streaming Pulled Into Converged MapR Platform

Time and again, commercial Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has demonstrated the value of the MapR-FS file system that underpins its Hadoop stack and differentiates it, more than any other feature ...
ZDNet

MapR: A Hadoop rebel with a cause

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 ...
insideHPC

CAC’s Pension Management System Adopts MapR for Its Hadoop Infrastructure

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of a leading distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, has announced CAC Corporation (CAC) has adopted the MapR Distribution including Hadoop for its “Micmari” cloud-based ...
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MapR Adds Drill to Hadoop Distribution for SQL-Based Big Data Analytics

MapR Technologies Inc. added the newly available Apache Drill project for SQL-based Big Data analytics to its Apache Hadoop distribution. The company this week announced the general availability of ...