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MapR is a commercial company focusing on products built around it's Converged Data Platform, which provides Hadoop compatibility plus NoSQL and streaming data storage capabilities, and which is bundled with a number of Hadoop open source products. They have started and are active in a number of open source components, including Apache Drill and Apache Myriad, both of which they founded. MapR was founded in 2009.

Vendor Technologies

MapR’s primary offering is their Converged Data Platform, with is available in a number of editions and with a number of add ons.

MapR were the founders of the Apache Drill and Apache Myriad projects.

Links

• https://mapr.com/ - company homepage
• https://mapr.com/products/ - products homepage
• http://maprdocs.mapr.com/home/ - documentation
• https://mapr.com/products/hadoop-as-a-service/ - MapR cloud vendor support

News

• https://mapr.com/blog/ - MapR blog
• https://community.mapr.com/docs/DOC-1426-how-to-get-notified-of-release-product-and-patch-announcements - product and patch announcements

Blog Posts

• Thoughts on MapR 2017-11-10 MapR Peter
• The Week That Was - 05/05/2017 2017-05-05 Tech Vendors Technologies MapR MapR-FS MapR-DB Cloudera Data Science Workbench Peter
• The Week That Was - 21/04/2017 2017-04-21 Tech Vendors Technologies Cloudera MapR MEP Drill Peter