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

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Post by notacoward » Mon, Jun 03, 2019, 3:40 AM UTC

vkoepnick wrote: post #79

notyourday wrote: post #51

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They all sucked. MapR sucked the least. Considering a comparable EMC solution was ~20x more expensive and less flexible, MapR happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right software but blew it because they decided they knew better what the customers needed to buy vs what the customers wanted to buy. Fundamentally, file system clusters are a very difficult business to get into and make enough mone…

The sweet spot you describe sounds like Quobyte to me.

...except for the "proven solution" part, Quobyte marketing VP.

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

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Post by sitkack » Mon, Jun 03, 2019, 6:52 AM UTC

xkgt wrote: post #80

sitkack wrote: post #75

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And MapR is so much more efficient than vanilla Hadoop, AWS definitely makes more money off the less polished yet mainstream version.

IMO it is not a fair comparison between EMR and MapR flavor of hadoop as they are designed for different usecases. MapR and other flavors of hadoop are engineered to make the task of administering a long running cluster easy. In comparison, EMR has a rudimentary set of tools for peaking into a running cluster. Whereas AWS offering is ideally suited for transient clusters. It relies on other solutions like Athena, Red…

I think we are talking past each other. MapR is a highly tuned system compiled to native binaries. It has nothing to do with the emphermality of the clusters, it has to do with job runtimes.

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

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Post by vkoepnick » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

notacoward wrote: post #81

vkoepnick wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sweet spot you describe sounds like Quobyte to me.

...except for the "proven solution" part, Quobyte marketing VP.

Honest question - what constitutes "proven"?

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

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Post by notyourday » Mon, Jun 10, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

vkoepnick wrote: post #83

notacoward wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...except for the "proven solution" part, Quobyte marketing VP.

Honest question - what constitutes "proven"?

Someone else that I know of a similar scale has used it successfully and is happy with it.