MapR significantly advances the Hadoop platform by adding innovation to the work already done by a large community of developers. MapR brings a large body of engineering breakthroughs to solve very difficult problems in the Hadoop space, while also contributing enhancements to various community projects. MapR is initially addressing the needs of customers building applications using the popular Hadoop and HBase APIs. MapR will continue to provide innovation to these and other big data analytic technologies.
MapR’s software is a complete distribution for Hadoop and that means that it has very wide applicability in nearly every industry and application domain. We believe that existing users in Financial Services, Web 2.0, Telecom and Government will experience immediate benefits of MapR’s features. As use of MapReduce continues to grow we believe that MapR’s significant advantages of ease of use, dependability, speed and cost reduction will make it the preferred distribution.
MapR advances the Hadoop platform by adding innovation to the work already done by a large community of developers. MapR`s breakthroughs make Hadoop faster, more reliable, more affordable, more manageable and significantly easier to use.
The award-winning MapR Distribution brings unprecedented dependability, speed and ease-of-use to Hadoop combined with data protection and business continuity, enabling customers to harness the power of Big Data analytics.
The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventures. To download the latest MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop, please visit http://www.mapr.com/products/download