MapR Technologies, Inc., the provider of an advanced distribution for Apache Hadoop, has unveiled the MapR Training Academy, a free internet-based source for training videos and documentation to help ...

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 ...

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., a leader in Apache™ Hadoop® technology for Big Data deployments, announced at the O’Reilly Strata Conference 2014: Making Data Work, the availability of the MapR Sandbox for ...

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 ...

Here’s the simple version of the story: Cloudera’s enterprise Hadoop distribution, CDH3, is open source, while MapR’s enterprise Hadoop distribution, M5, is closed. The reality is more nuanced, ...

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 ...

With prior partnerships in place with Hortonworks Inc. and Cloudera Inc., Microsoft has now teamed up with MapR Technologies Inc., the final member of the "big three" distributors of Apache-Hadoop ...

MapR’s latest Hadoop distribution includes support for Hadoop 2.2 with YARN, but is also backward compatible with the MapReduce 1.x scheduler, promising organizations a risk-free upgrade path to the ...