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MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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MapR has been reduced. Hadoop was the floppy disk of big data. Ubiquitous, but always beat by other solutions.

This is simply not true. Hadoop is growing massively.

All that is happening is that the vendors are being killed by the cloud.

Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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So, that would mean the hadoop distro market would be down to just cloudera? A single vendor market is not a market, it's a legacy product.

AFAIK, AWS's EMR and Glue leverage Hadoop under the covers. Does that count towards that market? and/or at least keeping Hadoop development active?

EMR is their managed distro of Hadoop.

DataPipeline is their managed Hadoop for ETL.

Glue ETL is their managed Spark.

And it all absolutely counts towards the market.

Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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post #18

Weren't they killed the moment Spark appeared, having heavily invested in accelerating Hadoop? I am surprised that Cloudera is still around...

No the cloud wiped them out.

Why spend $10k per node in an upfront licensing deal when you can buy it from AWS for a few dollars an hour.

Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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post #21
post #18

Weren't they killed the moment Spark appeared, having heavily invested in accelerating Hadoop? I am surprised that Cloudera is still around...

And spark was sort of killed by Storm / Heron as even Spark Streaming does microbatches and isn't truly realtime.

What ?

Spark Streaming is just one part of Spark and the far less used part as well.

Spark hasn't been killed by anything and is still heavily used for ETL and ML.

Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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We're seeing a lot of regret around sprawling Hadoop deployments, so this doesn't surprise me. Other Hadoop vendors (vendor?) pivoting to machine learning is a bandaid as the compute capabilities scale beyond HDFS's performance limitations. Look towards new-gen startups around NVME/NVMEOF (WekaIO, Excelero, E8, etc etc) to fill the void. The question is going to be: will anyone provide an intelligent way to maintain…

Hadoop's whole appeal was it was cheap and scalable. Did it actually work without serious engineering teams maintaining each distribution? absolutely not. the hype was purely VC funded. fast forward 10 years and hadoop has basically been killed off by hosted storage services that are more expensive but 10000x easier to manage.

I'm not really familiar with this industry. Are these Hadoop clusters hosted locally by these businesses? And MapR et all were providing the software/consulting to help manage them?

Then I'm guessing better cloud hosted options came out offering similar capabilities.

If that's the case was it really a big surprise that "cloud" hosting would eat any self-hosted platform's lunch?

Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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We're seeing a lot of regret around sprawling Hadoop deployments, so this doesn't surprise me. Other Hadoop vendors (vendor?) pivoting to machine learning is a bandaid as the compute capabilities scale beyond HDFS's performance limitations. Look towards new-gen startups around NVME/NVMEOF (WekaIO, Excelero, E8, etc etc) to fill the void. The question is going to be: will anyone provide an intelligent way to maintain…

I literally can't remember how many years it has been since the last time I heard something positive about Hadoop.

It's at least 4.

Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hadoop's whole appeal was it was cheap and scalable. Did it actually work without serious engineering teams maintaining each distribution? absolutely not. the hype was purely VC funded. fast forward 10 years and hadoop has basically been killed off by hosted storage services that are more expensive but 10000x easier to manage.

I'm not really familiar with this industry. Are these Hadoop clusters hosted locally by these businesses? And MapR et all were providing the software/consulting to help manage them? Then I'm guessing better cloud hosted options came out offering similar capabilities. If that's the case was it really a big surprise that "cloud" hosting would eat any self-hosted platform's lunch?

yes mostly locally hosted back then. the idea was you'd have this massive distributed file system to hold all your data, and VC backed comopanies like Cloudera, MapR, Hortonworks promised everyone that they'd build the SQL layer, the data warehousing, BI, and all the other enterprise features you'd need to basically replace your expensive Teradata, Oracle Exadata, and other data warehousing systems.

But of course it didn't play out that way.

Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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We're seeing a lot of regret around sprawling Hadoop deployments, so this doesn't surprise me. Other Hadoop vendors (vendor?) pivoting to machine learning is a bandaid as the compute capabilities scale beyond HDFS's performance limitations. Look towards new-gen startups around NVME/NVMEOF (WekaIO, Excelero, E8, etc etc) to fill the void. The question is going to be: will anyone provide an intelligent way to maintain…

So I deal with hundreds of Data Scientists and none of this is true for us. Hadoop vendors are simply getting killed by the cloud. AWS EMR, Azure ML, Google Dataproc. And many people are simply swapping HDFS for S3 or similar object stores. Never seen anyone switching to very expensive, more HPC style NVME setups. That seems strange given the data sizes we are working with. And 95% of what Data Scientists do is ETL,…

It really depends on what the workload is and if performance or scale are priorities. Our team and the products we build come from the HPC side of the fence and we've been engaged with all sorts of large businesses that know their performance requirements (think 100s of GB/s read bandwidth), and it leads them down the path of either HPC filesystems or newer NVMe-oriented filesystems. Does 'AI' or 'data science' always mean 'high performance'? No, but it definitely can.

Everyone's data volume is different as well...working a proposal for several petabytes of NVMe storage right now. It's not everyone, but use cases are out there for large volumes of high performance storage.

Fair point on the ability to swap the hdfs interface trivially, I hope it's that simple everywhere. Another issue we run into is that these companies have invested heavily in these Hadoop clusters, and would prefer to continue to get some use out of the mountains of HDDs that are captive in these environments. So tiering/HSM functionality is another facet of the issue that these environments will anchor for quite some time.

Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why I think MapR missed the mark. They had a software only solution one could deploy on a top of generic hardware in a data center to solve hundreds of TB to small number of PB storage problem that was real for enterprises and since those nodes would also be able to do compute jobs that was the way to get enterprises to adapt that technology. Going to object store was possible but it required dev time and in t…

Interesting post. Out of curiosity: aren't there others who have developed cluster storage exposed as NFS / FUSE?

Absolutely. In fact, that was my last project, which I worked on for almost a decade. Unfortunately, it's a tough market. At the low end, everyone thinks they can do it themselves. At the high end, you're up against either the "POSIX is dead let's use an object store" crowd or the enterprise EMC/NetApp/Isilon crowd. On the other side of the ledger, development costs are high. Developers are harder to find, more equipment is necessary, and the testing bar is higher, compared to other kinds of software. Low revenue + high cost = life sucks. That's why I work on a bespoke not-quite-filesystem now.

Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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We're seeing a lot of regret around sprawling Hadoop deployments, so this doesn't surprise me. Other Hadoop vendors (vendor?) pivoting to machine learning is a bandaid as the compute capabilities scale beyond HDFS's performance limitations. Look towards new-gen startups around NVME/NVMEOF (WekaIO, Excelero, E8, etc etc) to fill the void. The question is going to be: will anyone provide an intelligent way to maintain…

Hadoop's whole appeal was it was cheap and scalable. Did it actually work without serious engineering teams maintaining each distribution? absolutely not. the hype was purely VC funded. fast forward 10 years and hadoop has basically been killed off by hosted storage services that are more expensive but 10000x easier to manage.

Do you actually work in this industry ?

Because Hadoop has not been killed off. In fact it is far bigger than it has ever been and growing each year. It's just that it is all transitioning to the cloud with parts like HDFS being replaced with more scalable solutions like S3/EMRFS.

But you can't say it's been killed off when on AWS you have managed Hadoop (EMR), managed Hadoop pipelines (DataPipeline) managed Spark (Glue ETL), managed Hive Metastore (Glue Catalog) etc. And similar on Azure or GCP.

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