MapR offers an enterprise distribution of Hadoop that supports a broad range of use cases. It has been chosen by major companies like Google and Amazon for its capabilities. The document discusses three stories of how companies have benefited from using MapR: 1) A telecom company was able to offload ETL processing to gain a 20x cost performance advantage. 2) A company improved the performance of a recommendation engine on large datasets. 3) A machine learning expert was able to reproduce models accurately and explain previous recommendations.
MapR has been selected by two of the companies most experienced with MapReduce technology which is a testament to the technology advanges of MapR’s distribution. Amazon through its Elastic MapReduce service (EMR) hosted over 2 million clusters in the past year. Amazon selected MapR to complement EMR as the only commercial Hadoop distribution being offered, sold and supported as a service by Amazon to its customers. MapR was also selected by Google – the pioneer of MapReduce and the company whose white paper on MapReduce inspired the creation of Hadoop – has also selected MapR to make our distribution available on Google Compute Engine. Hadoop in the cloud makes a great deal of sense: the elastic resource allocation that cloud computing is premised on works well for cluster-based data processing infrastructure used on varying analyses and data sets of indeterminate size. MapR has unique features such as mirroring between sites and multi-tenancy support that further enhance cloud deployments
MapR is used today across industries. We have 10 of the Fortune 100 that are using MapR in production. We have leading web 2.0 properties such as leading digital advertising platforms, using MapR.These customers are using MapR in production for a variety of use cases. Examples include one of the largest credit card issuers in the world that has standardized on MapR for fraud and consumer targeting applications.Other examples include a major health care group,national cyber security, and one of the largest retailers in the world. These are all provided by MapR’s complete distribution for Apache Hadoop