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 ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 6, 2014) - MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced it will deliver several presentations, including a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced availability of a complete Apache HBase design and development ...

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, ...

A while ago, I posted What is "Big Data?". Here's a segment of that post. “Big Data” is a catch phrase that has been bubbling up from the high performance computing niche of the IT market.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MapR Technologies, Inc., today announced the MapR Advantage Partner Program. The Program, created to enable diverse organizations within the Hadoop community expand ...

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 ...