MapR
{{Short description|American business software company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = MapR Technologies, Inc.
| logo = MapR Technologies Inc. logo.png
| logo_caption = MapR Company Logo
| industry = Business software
| founded = {{Start date and age|2009|06}}
| 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 {{small|(CEO and Chairman of the Board)}}
MC Srivas {{small| (co-founder and former CTO)}}{{Cite web | title= Why MapR Just Shook-Up Its Management| url=https://www.cmswire.com/big-data/why-mapr-just-shook-up-its-management/ |author=Virginia Backaitis |accessdate=February 21, 2018}}
| 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.[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]{{cite press release |title=Hewlett Packard Enterprise Advances its Intelligent Data Platform with Acquisition of MapR's Business Assets |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190805005247/en/Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise-Advances-Intelligent-Data-Platform |website=Business Wire |date=5 August 2019 |accessdate=5 August 2019}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2011/08/30/30venturebeat-mapr-makes-friends-of-hadoop-and-the-enterpr-34892.html|title=MapR Makes Friends of Hadoop|website=The New York Times |accessdate=19 Sep 2011}} A round in 2013 was led by Mayfield Fund that also included Greenspring Associates.{{cite web|url=http://allthingsd.com/20130318/mapr-lands-30-million-series-c-led-by-mayfield-fund/|title=MapR Lands $30 Million Series C Led by Mayfield Fund.|last=Hesseldahl|first=Arik|publisher=All Things D|accessdate=9 May 2013}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://recode.net/2014/06/30/mapr-raises-110-million-in-round-led-by-google-capital/|title=MapR Raises $110 Million in Round Led by Google Capital|last1=Hesseldahl|first1=Arik|website=recode.net|publisher=Revere Digital LLC|accessdate=2 July 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2014/06/30/google-capital-leads-110m-round-in-big-data-startup-mapr/|title=Google Capital Leads $110M Round in Big-Data Startup MapR|last1=Gabrielle|first1=Karol|website=foxbusiness.com|publisher=Fox News Network|accessdate=2 July 2014}}
In May 2019, the company announced that it would shut down if it was unable to find additional funding.{{cite news | url=https://siliconangle.com/2019/05/30/mapr-may-shut-investor-pulls-following-extremely-poor-results/ | title=Big-data bombshell: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after 'extremely poor results' | date=May 30, 2019 | publisher=Silicon Angle | author=Paul Gillin}}
History
The company contributed to the Apache Hadoop projects HBase, Pig, Apache Hive, and Apache ZooKeeper.{{cite web|url=http://gigaom.com/cloud/why-mapr-is-right-to-give-back-to-apache-hadoop/|title=Why MapR is Right to Give Back to Apache Hadoop|last=Harris|first=Derrick|date=2011-06-01|website=GigaOM|accessdate=1 June 2011|archive-date=2012-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012025004/http://gigaom.com/cloud/why-mapr-is-right-to-give-back-to-apache-hadoop/|url-status=dead}}
MapR entered a technology licensing agreement with EMC Corporation on 2011, supporting an EMC-specific distribution of Apache Hadoop.{{cite web|url=https://gigaom.com/2011/05/25/startup-mapr-underpins-emcs-hadoop-effort/|title=Startup MapR Underpins EMC's Hadoop Effort|last=Harris|first=Derrick|date=2011-05-25|website=GigaOM|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822161507/http://msoftnews.com/google/startup-mapr-underpins-emc%E2%80%99s-hadoop-effort/|archivedate=22 August 2011|url-status=dead|accessdate=1 June 2011}} MapR was selected by Amazon Web Services to provide an upgraded version of Amazon's Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service.{{cite web|url=http://gigaom.com/cloud/amazon-taps-mapr-for-high-powered-elastic-mapreduce/|title=Amazon Taps MapR for High Powered Elastic Map Reduce|last=Harris|first=Derrick|date=2012-06-13|website=GigaOM|accessdate=25 June 2011|archive-date=2012-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106124833/http://gigaom.com/cloud/amazon-taps-mapr-for-high-powered-elastic-mapreduce/|url-status=dead}} MapR broke the minute sort speed record on Google's Compute platform.{{cite magazine|last=Metz|first=Cade|title=Google Teams With Prodigal Son to Bust Data Sort Record|url=https://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/google-mapr-data-sort-record/|magazine=Wired|accessdate=9 May 2013}}