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’
#2So, 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.
Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
#3So, 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?
Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
#4MapR has been reduced.
Hadoop was the floppy disk of big data. Ubiquitous, but always beat by other solutions.
Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
#5So, 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?
Hadoop ≠ Hadoop distro. Hadoop is fine and healthy; what is in question is whether larger repackagings of it with other vendor-specific components is an interesting product any more.
Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
#6So, 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.
Everybody is moving to the cloud so EMR, Dataproc, Dataflow, etc. are still going to be around
Plus everyone is moving away from Hadoop and HDFS, so it's Spark, S3, GCS, Databricks, etc
Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
#7Hope they're able to open source some of their tech if this does come to pass.
Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
#8So, 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?
Google's dataproc and Azure's HDInsight as well. The cloud players are swallowing whatever is left of the hadoop market.
Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
#9To me, and a few people that I know, the most interesting part of MapR was their NFS server over multiple nodes. It solved a real problem that real customers (i.e. enterprises with money for whom tech made stuff work and not was work in itself) were willing to pay a lot of money for ( see Isilon, EMC, NetApp, etc ) but that was a non-sexy part of the MapR business -- Big Data part was much sexier.
Over the last 5 years the real money making enterprises solved their "it should look like a big file system" problem so "the rest of our stuff works" issue stopped being an issue ( in a process Isilon got bought by the EMC, EMC got bought by Dell ) either by buying those specialized solutions, moving to object store or building home grown systems that worked with their specific applications and big data people went with newer, more shiny big data solutions, leaving MapR with no market.
Re: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
#10To me, and a few people that I know, the most interesting part of MapR was their NFS server over multiple nodes. It solved a real problem that real customers (i.e. enterprises with money for whom tech made stuff work and not was work in itself) were willing to pay a lot of money for ( see Isilon, EMC, NetApp, etc ) but that was a non-sexy part of the MapR business -- Big Data part was much sexier. Over the last 5 yea…
Which of the shinier, newer solutions do you think people have found more attractive in particular? Genuinely curious, thanks!