White Papers

The MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop: Learn how MapR makes Hadoop Easy, Dependable and Fast.
High Availability in the Hadoop Ecosystem: MapR provides high availability with no single points of failure across the entire stack.

MapR White Paper: High Availability in the Hadoop Ecosystem
The MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop provides high availability with no single points of failure across the entire stack. In the storage layer, MapR’s Distributed NameNode HATM architecture provides high availability with self-healing and support for multiple, simultaneous failures, with no additional hardware whatsoever.