NoSQL: Mapr: a Competitor to Hadoop Leader Cloudera

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Mapr: a Competitor to Hadoop Leader Cloudera

They are said to be building a proprietary replacement for the Hadoop Distributed File System that's allegedly three times faster than the current open-source version. It comes with snapshots and no NameNode single point of failure (SPOF), and is supposed to be API-compatible with HDFS, so it can be a drop-in replacement.

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