The champagne has been flowing over at MapR since Google announced the integration of its Distribution for Hadoop with Google Compute Engine, the start-up’s second big win in a row.
Amazon Web Services’ has extended its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service to include MapR as the only Hadoop distribution Amazon is offering, selling and supporting as a service.
Coupled with the Google win, a clear slight to Cloudera, the original Hadoop commercializer, MapR figures it’s the de facto standard for Hadoop in the cloud.
The combination of the new Google Compute Engine and MapR enables users to quickly provision large MapR clusters for Big Data analytics on-demand in the cloud.