 MapR Company Logo | |
| Industry | Business software |
|---|---|
| Founded | June 2009; 16 years ago (2009-06) |
| Founder | M.C Srivas, John Schroeder |
| Fate | Acquired byHewlett Packard Enterprise in August 2019 |
| Headquarters | , United States of America |
Number of locations | 10 |
Key people | John Schroeder(CEO and Chairman of the Board) MC Srivas (co-founder and former CTO)[1] |
| Products | Converged Data Platform,Apache Hadoop Distribution |
MapR was abusiness software company headquartered inSanta Clara, California. MapR software provides access to a variety of data sources from a singlecomputer cluster, includingbig data workloads such asApache Hadoop andApache Spark, adistributed file system, a multi-modeldatabase management system, andevent stream processing, combininganalytics inreal-time with operational applications. Its technology runs on bothcommodity hardware and publiccloud computing services. In August 2019, following financial difficulties, the technology and intellectual property of the company were sold toHewlett Packard Enterprise.[2][3]
MapR wasprivately held with original funding of $9 million fromLightspeed Venture Partners andNew Enterprise Associates in 2009. MapR executives come fromGoogle, Lightspeed Venture Partners,Informatica,EMC Corporation andVeoh. MapR had an additional round of funding led byRedpoint Ventures in August, 2011.[4] A round in 2013 was led byMayfield Fund that also included Greenspring Associates.[5] In June 2014, MapR closed a $110 million financing round that was led byGoogle Capital.Qualcomm Ventures also participated, along with existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, New Enterprise Associates and Redpoint Ventures.[6][7]
In May 2019, the company announced that it would shut down if it was unable to find additional funding.[8]
The company contributed to the Apache Hadoop projectsHBase,Pig,Apache Hive, andApache ZooKeeper.[9]
MapR entered a technology licensing agreement withEMC Corporation on 2011, supporting an EMC-specific distribution of Apache Hadoop.[10] MapR was selected byAmazon Web Services to provide an upgraded version of Amazon's Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service.[11] MapR broke the minute sort speed record on Google's Compute platform.[12]
| ||||||||||
| Corporate aspects |
|  | ||||||||
| Hardware |
| |||||||||
| Software | ||||||||||
| Services | ||||||||||
| Related | ||||||||||
