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MapR-DB

Failed Company

MapR-DB was a commercial re-implementation of HBase designed to run in Hadoop clusters.

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@MapR_DB
Developer
Country of Origin
US
Start Year
2012 [03]
Acquired By
Project Type
Commercial
Compatible With
HBase
Operating System
Linux
License
Proprietary

Database Entry

MapR-DB

Failed Company

MapR-DB was a commercial re-implementation of HBase designed to run in Hadoop clusters.

History[01][02]

MapR struggled in the late 2010s due to the faded enthusiasm in Hadoop-based technologies. The company announced in 2019 that they were soon to go bankrupt and then were subsequently sold to HPE three months later.

Data Model

Column Family / Wide-Column

Query Interface

Custom API

Storage Architecture

Disk-oriented

System Architecture

Shared-Disk
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Citations

3 sources
  1. Big-data bombshell: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after 'extremely poor results' - SiliconANGLE siliconangle.com
  2. The sun sets on the big-data era: HPE to acquire MapR's assets - SiliconANGLE siliconangle.com
  3. MapR simplifies and extends HBase for Hadoop theregister.com
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