MapR Technologies today announced a partnership with HP Vertica that integrates the HP Vertica Analytics Platform with MapR’s enterprise-grade distribution of Apache Hadoop. As a result of the partnership, users of the HP Vertica Analytics Platform on MapR have the capability to leverage the SQL capabilities of the HP Vertica Analytics Platform against data stored in Hadoop clusters. The HP Vertica Analytics Platform constitutes yet another “SQL-on-Hadoop” solution that competes with the likes of Apache Hive, Concurrent’s Lingual, Cloudera’s Impala, Hadapt and the Hortonworks Stinger initiative. As noted in GigaOm, MapR itself leads Apache Drill, an open source initiative to develop a highly scalable, SQL-based interactive query engine for Apache Hadoop, but clearly made a strategic decision to expand the range of users of its Hadoop distribution by partnering with HP Vertica. Today, MapR also announced the release of the latest version of its Hadoop distribution featuring support for Hadoop 2.2 and YARN. Notably, users running Hadoop 1.x can take advantage of YARN’s resource management abilities to preview the functionality of YARN before upgrading to Hadoop 2.0. HP Vertica Analytics Platform on MapR is currently available in early access mode and will be generally available in March.
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