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 ...

Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 6, 2014) - MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced it will deliver several presentations, including a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced availability of a complete Apache HBase design and development ...

To make it easier for companies to get information about Hadoop applications and move existing workloads over to Hadoop, MapR has launched a Hadoop application gallery and formed a partnership with ...

The commercial vendors behind Hadoop don’t actually taunt each other in the press, but they do say things like we’re the only…we don’t do that… they’re doing this… Of course each of them has to ...

Big Data is emerging as an important tool to help organizations learn more about their business operations, product performance, and customer purchasing behavior. It is misunderstood by the media ...

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 ...