san jose ca united states of america number of locations 10 area served united states united kingdom france germany sweden japan singapore korea australia singapore products hadoop technology website http www.mapr.com mapr is a san jose california based enterprise software company that develops and sells apache hadoop derived software . contents 1 description 2 products 3 partners 4 see also 5 references 6 external links description edit mapr is privately held with original funding of 9 million from lightspeed venture partners and new enterprise associates since 2009 . key 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 . 1 2 a c round was led by mayfield fund that also included greenspring associates as an investor . 3 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 . 4 5 the company contributes to apache hadoop projects like hbase pig programming language apache hive and apache zookeeper . 6 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 . 7 mapr was selected by amazon to provide an upgraded version of amazon s elastic map reduce emr service . 8 9 mapr has also been selected by google as a technology partner . 10 mapr was able to break the minute sort speed record on google s compute platform . 11 mapr provided three levels of license for their product known as m3 m5 and m7 . m3 is a free version of the m5 product with degraded availability features . m7 is like m5 but adds a purpose built rewrite of hbase that implements the hbase api directly in the file system layer . in 2016 mapr renamed their product a converged data platform which includes the mapr streams a pub sub system maprdb a complete no sql document store and all the hadoop ecosystem components integrated on the same distributed filesystem . on september 8 2016 mapr announced matt mills formerly of oracle corporation became chief executive replacing co founder john schroeder . 12 products edit the converged data platform was released in early 2016 as version 5.1.0 and includes the following key components mapr filesystem implements the hdfs api with a native c distributed read write file system . mapr db implements the hbase api but leverages all the advantages of the mapr fs to make it more robust faster and easier to manage . mapr streams implements the kafka api but uses mapr fs to offer increased performance and reliability of streams . partners edit amazon offers mapr s m3 and m5 editions as premium options on the elastic mapreduce service next to a set of apache hadoop versions . 9 big data partnership partners with mapr as first certified training & si partner in emea 13 google partnered with mapr in the launch of the google compute engine . 14 cisco systems announced support of mapr software on the cisco unified computing system platform . 15 informatica corporation impetus technologies talend teradata corporation tata consultancy services 16 databricks 17 see also edit accumulo apache software foundation big data bigtable cloud computing cloud infrastructure database centric architecture datastructure hadoop mapreduce hbase rainstor references edit mapr technologies secures 20 million in funding . retrieved 19 sep 2011 . mapr makes friends of hadoop . retrieved 19 sep 2011 . hesseldahl arik . mapr lands 30 million series c led by mayfield fund . . all things d. retrieved 9 may 2013 . hesseldahl arik . mapr raises 110 million in round led by google capital . recode.net . revere digital llc . retrieved 2 july 2014 . gabrielle karol . google capital leads 110m round in big data startup mapr . foxbusiness.com . fox news network . retrieved 2 july 2014 . why mapr is right to give back to apache hadoop . retrieved 1 june 2011 . startup mapr underpins emc s hadoop effort . retrieved 1 june 2011 . amazon emr with the mapr distribution for hadoop . retrieved 25 june 2011 . a b amazon taps mapr for high powered elastic map reduce . retrieved 25 june 2011 . mapr technologies joins google cloud platform partner program . reuters . retrieved 9 may 2013 . metz cade . google teams with prodigal son to bust data sort record . wired . retrieved 9 may 2013 . heather clancy september 8 2016 . ex oracle exec is now ceo of big data firm mapr . fortune . retrieved september 14 2016 . mapr announces certified training with big data partnership in emea . google compute engine leverages third party support . cisco ucs with mapr delivering advanced performance for hadoop workloads pdf . cisco . retrieved 9 may 2013 . http www.business standard.com article companies tcs partners with mapr technologies to make new big data offerings 114072201086 1.html tavakoli shiraji ashoka april 1 2014 . databricks and mapr partner to provide enterprise support for spark . mapr . retrieved september 28 2014 . external links edit mapr homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mapr & oldid 739427473 categories software companies based in the san francisco bay areacloud infrastructuredistributed file systemshadoopcompanies based in san jose californiabig data companieshidden categories articles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links 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