Companies Choose MapR for Hadoop Platform

MapR Technologies, Inc. announced at Hadoop Summit that the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop has become the standard Hadoop distribution for industry leaders.

The dependability, data protection and performance innovations of the MapR platform are required to support enterprise service levels and production applications.

"As applications move from development and test to production, requirements expand to include HA, BC and interoperability. Companies that have deployed other Hadoop distributions have experienced data loss, downtime and delays," said John Schroeder, CEO and co-founder, MapR. "MapR stands in contrast to other Hadoop distributions with an enterprise-grade architecture that provides end-to-end HA through replication of all data and metadata, combined with data protection, DR, and a POSIX-compliant storage interface."

Organizations that have switched from another Hadoop distribution to MapR include Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history; Quicken Loans, America’s largest online mortgage lender; Live Nation, the world’s largest ticket seller and promoter of live entertainment; Recruit Technologies, the number one provider of recruiting services in the world; Cision, in PR software and media tools and the world’s leading source of media contacts and information; ReturnPath, the worldwide leader in email intelligence; Solutionary, the pure-play managed security service provider; and The Rubicon Project, the technology company automating the buying and selling of advertising globally.

With MapR, organizations can have confidence that their data is always protected, and available, effectively eliminating risk, improving efficiency and enabling them to drive market leading results.

"MapR offers improved performance and flexible data access needed for high volume security analytics and on-demand customer access. MapR’s capabilities are simply unavailable in the other Hadoop alternatives. In addition, MapR provides the industry’s only automated, HA data protection capabilities to safeguard against a failure," said Scott Russman, director, software development, Solutionary, Inc.

"MapR allows Rubicon, which came to the table with four years of Hadoop experience, to run Hadoop clusters with just one dedicated administrator. We rely on MapR’s self-healing HA, DR and advanced monitoring features to conduct 90 billion real-time auctions on our global transaction platform. We depend on automation; that is how we manage a lights out data center," said Jan Gelin, VP technical operations, The Rubicon Project.

"Trueffect processes over 1 billion transactions per day and delivers data and creates reports every hour. Providing this intelligence in a timely manner to our customers is critical to their ability to optimally target, serve and measure their ad effectiveness thereby increasing their customer base and revenues. For this reason, MapR’s superior HA Name Node and Job Tracker features really resonated with us, prompting a move from an alternative Hadoop distribution to the MapR platform," said Rob Rust, VP engineering, Trueffect.

"Blizzard runs three triple-A games simultaneously and we want to share resources among the games but not the data. MapR’s NFS file system and volume features enable us to keep the data separate and to update data much more easily than alternative approaches. Within the first 6 months of implementation we are now processing over a terabyte of data per day much more effectively than ever," said Benjamin Wurst, senior database engineer, Blizzard Entertainment.

"After outgrowing our SQL solution, we evaluated Hadoop solutions for six months and chose MapR to help us manage our growing volume of data. Scaling with MapR is now a simple ‘WA Rinse. Repeat.’ process instead of a long complex project with worries about bottlenecks and compatibility issues. I can scale linearly by popping up new servers in hours not months. This is a game changer for us," said Greg Stam, SVP global software engineering, Cision.

"After evaluating the available Hadoop solutions, MapR was clearly the fastest, most scalable, and most fault tolerant platform. MapR has enabled a dramatic jump in performance with less hardware and has given us the ability to compile terabytes of data in less time with less money. This provides our customers with real-time solutions to help them make smarter decisions about their business," said Manny Puentes, CTO, LinkSmart.