MapR was a

business software Business software (or a business application) is any software or set of computer programs used by business users to perform various business functions. These business applications are used to increase productivity, measure productivity, and perf ...

company headquartered in

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. MapR software provides access to a variety of data sources from a single

computer cluster A computer cluster is a set of computers that work together so that they can be viewed as a single system. Unlike grid computers, computer clusters have each node set to perform the same task, controlled and scheduled by software. The comp ...

, including big data workloads such as Apache Hadoop and

Apache Spark Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Spark provides an interface for programming clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance. Originally developed at the University of Califor ...

, a

distributed file system A clustered file system is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering, most of which do not employ a clustered file system (only direct attached storage for ...

, a multi-model

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, and

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, combining

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with operational applications. Its technology runs on both commodity hardware and public

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services. In August 2019, following financial difficulties, the technology and intellectual property of the company were sold to

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Funding

MapR was

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with original funding of $9 million from

Lightspeed Venture Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm focusing on multi-stage investments in the enterprise, consumer, and health sectors. Lightspeed invests in seed, early and growth-stage companies. The company invests in the U.S. and a ...

and

New Enterprise Associates New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American-based venture capital firm. NEA focuses investment stages ranging from seed stage through growth stage across an array of industry sectors. With ~$25 billion in committed capital, NEA is one of the w ...

in 2009. MapR executives come from

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EMC Corporation Dell EMC (EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Round Rock, Texas, United States. Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud c ...

and Veoh. MapR had an additional round of funding led by

Redpoint Ventures Redpoint Ventures is an American venture capital firm focused on investments in seed, early and growth-stage companies. History The firm was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angel ...

in August, 2011. A round in 2013 was led by

Mayfield Fund Mayfield, also known as Mayfield Fund, is a US-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage to growth-stage investments in enterprise and consumer technology companies. Founded in 1969 and based in Menlo Park, California, it is one of S ...

that also included Greenspring Associates. In June 2014, MapR closed a $110 million financing round that was led by

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. Qualcomm Ventures also participated, along with existing investors

and

. In May 2019, the company announced that it would shut down if it was unable to find additional funding.

History

The company contributed to the Apache Hadoop projects

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Apache Hive Apache Hive is a data warehouse software project built on top of Apache Hadoop for providing data query and analysis. Hive gives an SQL-like interface to query data stored in various databases and file systems that integrate with Hadoop. Traditi ...

, and

Apache ZooKeeper Apache ZooKeeper is an open-source server for highly reliable distributed coordination of cloud applications. It is a project of the Apache Software Foundation. ZooKeeper is essentially a service for distributed systems offering a hierarchical ...

. MapR entered a technology licensing agreement with

on 2011, supporting an EMC-specific distribution of Apache Hadoop. MapR was selected by

Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Amazon that provides Software as a service, on-demand cloud computing computing platform, platforms and Application programming interface, APIs to individuals, companies, and gover ...

to provide an upgraded version of Amazon's Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service. MapR broke the minute sort speed record on Google's Compute platform.

References

External links

MapR Homepage
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Funding

History

See also

References

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