MapR
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| Industry | Data Services |
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| Founder | John Schroeder |
| Headquarters | San Jose, CA, United States of America |
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Number of locations
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10 |
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Key people
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Matt Mills (CEO) John Schroeder (Founder & Executive Chairman) |
| Products | Converged Data Platform, Apache Hadoop Distribution |
| Website | http://www.mapr.com/ |
MapR Technologies is an enterprise software company headquartered in San Jose, California. MapR provides an Apache Hadoop distribution, a distributed file system, database management system, a set of data management tools and other related software. Combining analytics in real-time with operational applications, its technology runs on both commodity hardware and public cloud computing services.
MapR Technologies is privately held with original funding of $9 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates in 2009. MapR executives come from Google, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Informatica, EMC Corporation and Veoh. MapR had an additional round of funding led by Redpoint in August, 2011. A round in 2013 was led by Mayfield Fund that also included Greenspring Associates. In June 2014, MapR closed a $110 million financing round that was led by Google Capital. Qualcomm Ventures also participated, along with existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, New Enterprise Associates and Redpoint Ventures.
The company contributes to Apache Hadoop projects like HBase, Pig (programming language), Apache Hive, and Apache ZooKeeper. MapR's Apache Hadoop distribution claims to provide full data protection, no single points of failure, improved performance, and dramatic ease of use advantages. MapR entered a technology licensing agreement with EMC Corporation on 25 May 2011, supporting an EMC-specific distribution of Apache Hadoop. MapR was selected by Amazon to provide an upgraded version of Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) service. MapR has also been selected by Google as a technology partner. MapR was able to break the minute sort speed record on Google's compute platform.
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