Gone in 60 seconds! Breaking the MinuteSort Record Yuliya Feldman, Amit Hadke, Gera Shegalov, M. C. Srivas Introduction The MinuteSort test measures how much data a system can sort in 1 minute. The test requires that a random sequence of … Continue reading →

When MapR was given access to Google Compute Engine’s limited preview, we ran a lot of mini tests on the virtualized hardware to figure out how to tune our software. The results of those tests were surprisingly good. The speed … Continue reading →

Recently a world record was claimed for a Hadoop benchmark.  MapR has run numerous benchmarks where MapR performs 2 to 5 times faster than other distributions and have published these results. So a world record was quite a claim. We … Continue reading →