Category Archives: MapR Technologies Blog
MapR was proud to participate in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O, Google’s exclusive annual developer conference held in San Francisco last week. The conference featured speakers from various industries as well as code labs and developer demos. One of … Continue reading
Overview Hadoop provides a compelling distributed platform for processing massive amounts of data in parallel using the Map/Reduce framework and the Hadoop distributed file system. A JAVA API allows developers to express the processing in terms of a map phase … Continue reading
NoSQL databases are becoming increasingly popular for analyzing big data. There are very few NoSQL solutions, however, that provide the combination of scalability, reliability and data consistency required in a mission-critical application. As the open source implementation of Google’s BigTable … Continue reading
IDC analysts Dan Vesset and Michael Versace outlined the way that Progressive Insurance is using big data as a way to get insights into its customers’ driving behaviors in a recent article by Chris Kanaracus in ComputerWorld about the challenges … Continue reading
Expanding Big Data solutions to yet another level, MapR made two announcements today: MapR M7, which provides an enterprise-grade NoSQL and Hadoop solution to our customers, is now available; and LucidWorks Search will be distributed with the MapR Platform for … Continue reading
In 2011 Martin Fowler coined the term Polyglot Persistence, suggesting in a nutshell: … any decent sized enterprise will have a variety of different data storage technologies for different kinds of data. There will still be large amounts of it … Continue reading
Increasing our local presence in Europe, MapR announced last week the appointment of Xavier Guerin to the position of vice president southern Europe and Benelux. Guerin, a seasoned executive with over 20 years of industry experience including senior roles at … Continue reading
Demand for both Apache Hadoop and NoSQL is extremely strong and this can mean only one thing: companies are hiring, and there is stiff competition for employees with experience in these technologies. This was brought home last month in an … Continue reading
VMware and MapR have been collaborating to provide customers with the “Easy” button when it comes to deploying MapR into a vSphere environment. Serengeti’s M4 release (derived from Model 4 and not related to MapR’s M3 or M5 Editions), provides … Continue reading
It’s not just how you store big data but what you can do with it – and that was apparent as Java developers took part in Devoxx conferences in London and Paris last week. Participants had a lot to say … Continue reading