Why Google Capital Placed Its Hadoop Bet On MapR [Forbes]

From a timely big data platform market survey; also see MapR raises $110M to fuel its enterprise Hadoop push (GigaOM)

"Google Capital bet on MapR because, in my view, at its core Google believes in product. But there is another aspect of the purchase that is less widely understood. Google also understands the power of combining open source and proprietary technology. Remember, when you click on a the “Google Search” almost all of the code that run was written by Google and is not open source. Google understands that the best experience comes form the best product that is engineered without any prejudice.

Gene Frantz, general partner at Google Capital, explained the investment as follows in an email in response to my questions. “We’ve been impressed by MapR’s reliability, performance and data protection — all capabilities that their customers report as reasons they chose MapR. Beyond the products and technology, MapR has a great management team that has built a strong, growing and attractive business,” said Frantz."

Why Google Capital Placed Its Hadoop Bet On MapR