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HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)

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What is HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)?

HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (formerly MapR, acquired by HPE in 2019) is a software-defined datastore and file system that simplifies data management and analytics by unifying data across core, edge, and multicloud sources into a single platform. Just as a…

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MapR Beginner Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 13, 2016
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MapR is being used by our business research department to collect and evaluate media data. We've also used MapR in creating test data for testing performance with other techno...
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Chavez Kattick
Employee - Engineering
Software Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)1 year of experience

MapR Makes it Easy

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 14, 2015
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We deploy MapR for large corporations deploying big data projects. Our software installs and configures MapR plain or fully configured with spreadsheets. The flexibility MapR ...
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Verified user
Engineer
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)4 years of experience

Mapr - a small review!

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 2, 2015
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My team was maintaining multiple Hadoop clusters on a high UCS hardware configuration powered by MapR. We were also maintaining a big cluster in a production environment and o...
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Engineer
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)2 years of experience

Comparison of MapR versus other Hadoop distributions

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 1, 2015
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We were implementing a fully relational database on top of HBase. This was not a "SQL on Hadoop" project where we supported a subset of SQL. We developed a fully SQL-92 (parti...
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Engineer
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)1 year of experience
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MapR Beginner Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
June 13, 2016
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Chavez Kattick
Software Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MapR is being used by our business research department to collect and evaluate media data. We've also used MapR in creating test data for testing performance with other technologies. It works well with other big data technologies like HBase, HIVE, and Spark. It does provide a performance advantage when used with HBase.
Pros and Cons
  • MapR allows easy integration with HBase and MapR DB.
  • Easy trial server setup for product testing.
  • Excellent training program to help new users get up-to-date with MapR and related products.
Likelihood to Recommend
MapR will be a benefit with any application where HBase is used and performance is a big factor.
Return on Investment
  • We've been able to produce a solution with Hive and MapR
Alternatives Considered
I don't believe there is as much support for MapR yet compared to other more widely known products.
Other Software Used

MapR Makes it Easy

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 14, 2015
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We deploy MapR for large corporations deploying big data projects. Our software installs and configures MapR plain or fully configured with spreadsheets. The flexibility MapR has allows us to provision backend nodes with the proper networking and disk configuration automatically for optimized performance. It is being used by several corporations we support in large scale big data deployments for fraud detection and user behavior analysis.
Pros and Cons
  • MapR is fast. We were able to beat the Terasort in record in 2012 on 360 nodes during the initial deployment of a cluster that is now 4000 nodes.
  • MapR is reliable. We rarely if ever have problems deploying MapR. It's the kind of software that "just works."
  • MapR scales. We have a client using MapR in all their big data clusters, ranging from 50 to 630 machines. Test, development, and production all deploy MapR.
Likelihood to Recommend
MapR is more well-suited for people who know what they are doing. I consider MapR the Hadoop distribution professionals use.
Return on Investment
  • Increased employee efficiency for sure. Our clients have various levels of expertise in their deployment and user teams, and we never receive complaints about MapR.
  • MapR is used by one of our financial services clients who uses it for fraud detection and user pattern analysis. They are able to turn around data much faster than they previously had with in-house applications
Alternatives Considered
Hortonworks and Cloudera are both sort of hacky. We have to do a lot of extra steps to automate those two. MapR has far fewer issues and doesn't force you into a once size fits all deployment scenario. There are multiple ways to deploy and some are more amenable to automation, MapR just has that in spades.
Other Software Used

Mapr - a small review!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 02, 2015
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My team was maintaining multiple Hadoop clusters on a high UCS hardware configuration powered by MapR. We were also maintaining a big cluster in a production environment and other clusters for development, QA, disaster recovery and POC. All clusters were configured with high availability. Multiple internal teams used to run their application jobs on our cluster. My team was responsible for managing and maintaining these clusters. We evaluated and implemented new big data and related tools introduced by Mapr. The goal was to make sure application customers using our cluster stay happy. Day to day jobs on our cluster include traditional Java MapReduce, Streaming, Pig, Hive, Mapr-Tables and other in-memory application jobs like spark for analytics on our company internal data. Nearly a total of 50 different use cases using Hadoop were implemented in our various clusters. At times we required getting support from Mapr on complex issues which could not be resolved by my team.
Pros and Cons
  • Out of the box high availability on multiple Hadoop services, which will really bring enterprise standards. High availability of JobTracker, CLDB in Hadoop 1.x, HA for Impala services etc. Less headache for my team when it comes to service failure.
  • Performance enhancements when migrated from Hbase to Mapr Tables.
  • HDFS-NFS integration pioneer.
  • Volume concept of HDFS storage allocation which could be controlled from MCS GUI was great.
Likelihood to Recommend
Choose according to your use case. In our situation, we never had to worry about service interruptions. When we kicked off a couple of years ago, Mapr was doing excellent work. Support is not great, [you'll] be lucky to get good support engineers on request. If you have issues with MaprFS or Mapr Tables, never waste time looking into it.
Return on Investment
  • Less manual intervention for maintaining a cluster.
Alternatives Considered
When we were shopping, Mapr had the momentum, high availability even on Hadoop 1.x, an improved file system and better a central control system. Now it looks like the situation has changed a lot.
Other Software Used

Comparison of MapR versus other Hadoop distributions

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
December 01, 2015
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR)
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We were implementing a fully relational database on top of HBase. This was not a "SQL on Hadoop" project where we supported a subset of SQL. We developed a fully SQL-92 (partially SQL-99) compliant database on top of HBase. We supported all three major commercial distributions of HBase (Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR).
Pros and Cons
  • MapR had very fast I/O throughput. The write speed was several times faster than what we could achieve with the other Hadoop vendors (Cloudera and Hortonworks). This is because MapR does not use HDFS, which is essentially a "meta filesystem". HDFS is built on top of the filesystem provided by the OS. MapR has their filesystem called MapR-FS, which is a true filesystem and accesses the raw disk drives.
  • The MapR filesystem is very easy to integrate with other Linux filesystems. When working with HDFS from Apache Hadoop, you usually have to use either the HDFS API or various Hadoop/HDFS command line utilities to interact with HDFS. You cannot use command line utilities native to the host operation system, which is usually Linux. At least, it is not easily done without setting up NFS, gateways, etc. With MapR-FS, you can mount the filesystem within Linux and use the standard Unix commands to manipulate files.
  • The HBase distribution provided by MapR is very similar to the Apache HBase distribution. Cloudera and Hortonworks add GUIs and other various tools on top of their HBase distributions. The MapR HBase distribution is very similar to the Apache distribution, which is nice if you are more accustomed to using Apache HBase.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need Hadoop and just need raw speed for I/O and have a Hadoop savvy group of engineers who don't need/like web UIs, then MapR is a great fit for you. If you are new to Hadoop or have DevOps folks that are not Hadoop gurus, choosing MapR as your Hadoop vendor will have a steeper learning curve as you will need to do more training and build more admin consoles for them.
Return on Investment
  • We were selling our Hadoop RDBMS as a traditional software product and there were several prospects who were interested because we supported MapR since MapR has a strong reputation for performance. I cannot comment on whether those deals were closed or not.
Alternatives Considered
We supported all three Hadoop vendors with our Hadoop RDBMS product. Here's how I see the commercial Hadoop distribution world. If you need raw performance and don't mind proprietary technology, go with MapR. If you care about the most pure open source, go with Hortonworks. If you like web UI's and ease of use, go with Cloudera.
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