MapR
American business software company
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::summary American business software company ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | MapR Technologies, Inc. |
| logo | MapR Technologies Inc. logo.png |
| logo_caption | MapR Company Logo |
| industry | Business software |
| founded | |
| founder | M.C Srivas, John Schroeder |
| fate | Acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in August 2019 |
| location_city | Santa Clara, California |
| location_country | United States of America |
| locations | 10 |
| key_people | John Schroeder (CEO and Chairman of the Board) |
| MC Srivas (co-founder and former CTO) | |
| products | Converged Data Platform, Apache Hadoop Distribution |
| :: |
| name = MapR Technologies, Inc. | logo = MapR Technologies Inc. logo.png | logo_caption = MapR Company Logo | industry = Business software | founded = | founder = M.C Srivas, John Schroeder | fate = Acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in August 2019 | location_city = Santa Clara, California | location_country = United States of America | locations = 10 | key_people = John Schroeder (CEO and Chairman of the Board) MC Srivas (co-founder and former CTO) | products = Converged Data Platform, Apache Hadoop Distribution
MapR was a business software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. MapR software provides access to a variety of data sources from a single computer cluster, including big data workloads such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, a distributed file system, a multi-model database management system, and event stream processing, combining analytics in real-time with operational applications. Its technology runs on both commodity hardware and public cloud computing services. In August 2019, following financial difficulties, the technology and intellectual property of the company were sold to Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Funding
MapR was 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 Ventures 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.
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 HBase, Pig, Apache Hive, and Apache ZooKeeper.
MapR entered a technology licensing agreement with EMC Corporation on 2011, supporting an EMC-specific distribution of Apache Hadoop. MapR was selected by Amazon Web Services 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
References
- Virginia Backaitis. "Why MapR Just Shook-Up Its Management".
- [https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/05/end-big-data-era-hpe-acquire-maprs-assets/ The sun sets on the big-data era: HPE to acquire MapR’s assets]
- (5 August 2019). "Hewlett Packard Enterprise Advances its Intelligent Data Platform with Acquisition of MapR's Business Assets".
- "MapR Makes Friends of Hadoop".
- Hesseldahl, Arik. "MapR Lands $30 Million Series C Led by Mayfield Fund.". All Things D.
- "MapR Raises $110 Million in Round Led by Google Capital". Revere Digital LLC.
- "Google Capital Leads $110M Round in Big-Data Startup MapR". Fox News Network.
- Paul Gillin. (May 30, 2019). "Big-data bombshell: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after 'extremely poor results'". Silicon Angle.
- Harris, Derrick. (2011-06-01). "Why MapR is Right to Give Back to Apache Hadoop".
- Harris, Derrick. (2011-05-25). "Startup MapR Underpins EMC's Hadoop Effort".
- Harris, Derrick. (2012-06-13). "Amazon Taps MapR for High Powered Elastic Map Reduce".
- Metz, Cade. "Google Teams With Prodigal Son to Bust Data Sort Record".
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