Industry Data Services Founded 2009 Headquarters San Jose | CEO John Schroeder (2009–) Number of locations 10 | |
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Key people Matt Mills(CEO)John Schroeder(Founder & Executive Chairman) Founders John Schroeder, M.C. Srivas Profiles | ||
MapR Technologies is an enterprise software company headquartered in San Jose, California. MapR provides an Apache Hadoop distribution, a distributed file system, database management system, a set of data management tools and other related software. Combining analytics in real-time with operational applications, the MapR Platform runs on both commodity hardware and public cloud services.
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Description
MapR Technologies is privately held with original funding of $9 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates since 2009. Key MapR executives come from Google, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Informatica, EMC Corporation and Veoh. MapR had an additional round of funding led by Redpoint in August, 2011. A C round was led by Mayfield Fund that also included Greenspring Associates as an investor. In June 2014, MapR closed a $110 million financing round that was led by Google Capital. Qualcomm Ventures also participated, along with existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, New Enterprise Associates and Redpoint Ventures.
The company contributes to Apache Hadoop projects like HBase, Pig (programming language), Apache Hive, and Apache ZooKeeper. MapR's Apache Hadoop distribution claims to provide full data protection, no single points of failure, improved performance, and dramatic ease of use advantages. MapR entered a technology licensing agreement with EMC Corporation on 25 May 2011, supporting an EMC-specific distribution of Apache Hadoop. MapR was selected by Amazon to provide an upgraded version of Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) service. MapR has also been selected by Google as a technology partner. MapR was able to break the minute sort speed record on Google's compute platform.
MapR provided three levels of license for their product known as M3, M5 and M7. M3 is a free version of the M5 product with degraded availability features. M7 is like M5, but adds a purpose-built rewrite of HBase that implements the HBase API directly in the file-system layer.
In 2016, MapR renamed their product a "Converged Data Platform" which includes the MapR Streams, a pub-sub system, MapR-DB, a complete NoSQL document store and all the Hadoop ecosystem components integrated on the same distributed filesystem.
On September 8, 2016, MapR announced Matt Mills (formerly of Oracle Corporation) became chief executive, replacing co-founder John Schroeder.
Products
The Converged Data Platform was released in early 2016 as version 5.1.0 and includes the following key components: