Taking a peek at H Online a recent upgrade for Hadoop-based company MapR was discussed in, “MapR Boosts HBase Application Performance.” MapR decided to upgrade its Hadoop distribution with its M7 edition. The new M7 edition is built for NoSQL databases on enterprise systems with a significant retooling of the Hadoop-based key-value Apache HBase. The real magic is that the new HBase combines storage and real-time analysis with MapR’s Hadoop techniques. The former layer architecture has disappeared and HBase now works directly with data in a single network hop. It is great news, because communication speeds up and it improves performance.
The biggest news, however, is:
Integration with commercial search platform LucidWorks, which is based on Apache technologies Lucene and Solr, is also available as a beta. This enables users to hunt through data stored in the Hadoop File System or on other file systems. LucidWorks Search also simplifies installation of Lucene or Solr. The technology also has native support for multiple data sources and includes both a graphical user interface and a security framework. MapR is planning to incorporate the search options into all three of its distributions.
Talk about Big Data injection! MapR has gotten itself ready for the next round of Big Data. The industry trend is already firmly grounded, now it is time to grow and take advantage of what Big Data systems can do, powered with LucidWorks.
Whitney Grace, May 23, 2013
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