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 ...

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcast live from San Jose, for the first day of Hadoop Summit 2013. They interviewed Tomer Shiran, Vice President of Product Management with MapR, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 commercial vendors behind Hadoop don’t actually taunt each other in the press, but they do say things like we’re the only…we don’t do that… they’re doing this… Of course each of them has to ...

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 ...

MapR’s latest Hadoop distribution includes support for Hadoop 2.2 with YARN, but is also backward compatible with the MapReduce 1.x scheduler, promising organizations a risk-free upgrade path to the ...

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 ...