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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like the elephant in the room that crashed the party, MapR Technologies Inc. unveiled version 5.0 of its Apache Hadoop-based Big Data analytics distribution among a barrage of MapR news announcements ...

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 ...

Open source Hadoop vendor MapR Technologies Inc. is expanding the functionality of its Big Data platform with the release of MapR 4.1, with the headline feature being new table replication features ...

With a growing big data partnership ecosystem, MapR enhances the protection and management of sensitive Hadoop data to joint customers. MapR partners, including Centrify, Dataguise, Datameer, HP ...

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 ...

The fall of MapR caused a rush to judgement about the future of Hadoop. To understand what this means for data initiatives, the viability of Hadoop and data lakes must be separately examined. Data ...