MapR is the Next Generation for Apache Hadoop

In evaluating and selecting a distribution for Apache Hadoop you need to look at the technical differences between distributions.

MapR Technologies provides the industry’s most differentiated distribution of software including Apache Hadoop to allow more businesses to harness the power of Big Data analytics. These technological advances make the capabilities of Apache Hadoop easier to use, more dependable, and significantly faster, vastly broadening the scope of how and where Hadoop can be used.

MapR is a complete distribution that is 100% API compatible with Apache Hadoop (MapReduce, HDFS and HBase). MapR fully tests and supports the complete distribution, combining MapR’s intellectual property with the best of the best from the community, including the latest patches. As shown in Figure 1, MapR provides:

• Language access components (Hive and Pig)
• Database components (HBase)
• Workflow management libraries (Oozie)
• Application building libraries (Mahout)
• SQL to Hadoop database import/export (Sqoop)
• Log collection (Flume)
• The entire MapReduce layer
• Underlying storage services functionality