MapR Technologies, EMC Announce Software Licensing Agreement

MapR Technologies and EMC (News  - Alert), a provider of storage hardware solutions that promote data recovery and improve cloud computing, have entered into a technologysoftware licensing agreement in which MapR Technologies will be part of the recently announced EMC Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition, a 100 percent interface-compatible implementation of the Apache Hadoop software stack.

As part of software licensing agreement MapR Technologieswill be part of the recently announced EMC Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition, a 100 percent interface-compatible implementation of the Apache Hadoop software stack.

The new EMC system will incorporate MapR Technologies’ pre-integrated, tested and hardened distribution for Apache Hadoop.

“EMC is focused on delivering the best-in-class solutions for Big Data. We evaluated the various Hadoop software offerings and believe that MapR is the clear enterprise- class innovation leader. With MapR, we are able to provide an unmatched solution for high availability, fault tolerance, and enterprise-class support and service,” said Scott Yara, co-founder of Greenplum and Vice president of products, data computing division of EMC, in a statement.

“Combined with the EMC Greenplum Database we will enable the co-processing of both structured and unstructured data within a single, seamless solution,” said Yara.

Although a number of Hadoop distributions are available, they fail to address underlying customer concerns such as single points of failure, lack of snapshots and mirroring, and poor performance, according to company offiicals.

“This is a major advancement for Hadoop users everywhere. MapR’s innovations coupled with EMC’s big data analytics capabilities and service will allow more people to use the power of big data analytics and enable substantial market growth,” said John Webster, senior analyst, at Evaluator Group.

Webster said that MapR has managed to innovate on performance, cost reduction, dependability and ease-of-use all at once. This marks a major shift for the Hadoop market, he said.

Officials with MapR said that the company’s innovations transform Hadoop into a dependable compute platform while also increasing performance. Specific MapR advances make Hadoop, easy, dependable and fast.

“Today marks an exciting milestone as we announce our partnership with EMC and unveil the industry’s best distribution for Apache Hadoop that will advance and grow the entire market,” said John Schroeder, CEO and co-founder, MapR Technologies.

“We listened to customers, partners and the community about where Hadoop needed major investment and addressed those areas by delivering breakthrough innovations,” said Schroeder.