Friday, May 27, 2011

Upstart MapR unveils 'next generation' Hadoop • The Register

Rapid evolution for Hadoop

According to MapR CEO and cofounder John Schroeder, the company has rebuilt Hadoop's storage system, job tracker, and name space, providing more rapid access to data and improving the platform's ability to scale. MapR's Hadoop is not entirely open source, Schroeder says. It is now in use by "quite a few" customers, including EMC, whose Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition of Hadoop is essentially MapR technology.

Based on Google's back-end infrastructure and named after a yellow stuffed elephant, Hadoop offers a distributed file system (HDFS) and a distributed number-crunching platform (Hadoop MapReduce) as well as various other tools. It's typically used for offline data processing, though a sister project, Hbase, offers a real-time distributed database.

Upstart MapR unveils 'next generation' Hadoop • The Register

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