New platform unifies real-time event streaming, database and storage for big data scale and flexibility

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry's only converged data platform, today announced the immediate availability of the MapR Converged Data Platform with new security, data governance and performance enhancements. The MapR Platform is uniquely architected to converge Hadoop with Spark, web-scale storage, NoSQL, and streaming capabilities into one unified cluster, enabling customers to deploy real-time global data applications with unprecedented scale and flexibility.

Available now, the MapR Converged Data Platform gives customers new big data capabilities across MapR Streams, MapR-DB, and MapR-FS. From powerful security and data governance, to optimal Docker support and extreme performance, MapR continues to innovate its platform for today's business-critical environments.

Highlights include:

Unprecedented big data security

Optimized for multi-tenant containerized environments

Extremely fast performance across the Platform

"SurveyMonkey is leveraging the speed and power of the MapR Data Platform to gain deeper insights into our customer behavior and experience, enabling us to continue to develop and improve our world class survey platform," said Graeme Wilson, manager, BI Infrastructure, SurveyMonkey.

"MapR is leading the industry with the only data platform that converges Hadoop with Spark, storage, NoSQL, and very fast streaming capabilities on one unified cluster," said Robin Bloor, chief analyst, Bloor Group. "This enables MapR customers to transform how they do business by providing the foundation for creating global real-time data applications that can lead to a significant competitive advantage."

MapR commitment to the open source community continues to drive monthly ecosystem updates with new project releases, including, Apache Myriad 0.1, Spark 1.5.2 GA and Spark 1.6 (in developer preview), Hue 3.9, Sentry 1.6, Impala 2.2, HBase 1.1, Drill 1.4.

"We've listened closely to our customers who drive their business on MapR and delivered the industry's first and only converged data platform built on technology innovations exclusive to MapR," said Anoop Dawar, vice president, products Hadoop and Spark, MapR Technologies. "Customers gain a strong competitive advantage with platform-wide real-time capabilities to process and analyze data instantly so they can focus their teams on delivering business insights, not on managing infrastructure."

AVAILABILITY

The MapR Converged Data Platform is immediately available and is free within the MapR Converged Community Edition. Download it here.

Cloud-based deployments for the new MapR Platform will be available this month in major public clouds, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and CenturyLink Marketplace.

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About MapR Technologies MapR provides the industry's only converged data platform that integrates the power of Hadoop and Spark with global event streaming, real-time database capabilities, and enterprise storage, enabling customers to harness the enormous power of their data. Organizations with the most demanding production needs, including sub-second response for fraud prevention, secure and highly available data-driven insights for better healthcare, petabyte analysis for threat detection, and integrated operational and analytic processing for improved customer experiences, run on MapR. A majority of customers achieves payback in fewer than 12 months and realizes greater than 5X ROI. MapR ensures customer success through world-class professional services and with free on-demand training that over 50,000 developers, data analysts and administrators have used to close the big data skills gap. Amazon, Cisco, Google, HPE, Microsoft, SAP, and Teradata are part of the worldwide MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with MapR on LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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MapR Technologies, Inc. Beth Winkowski, 978-649-7189 bwinkowski@maprtech.com or Kim Pegnato, 781-620-0016 kpegnato@maprtech.com