MapR, Canonical Bringing Hadoop to Ubuntu
MapR Technologies has teamed with Canonical to deliver the Hadoop data-analytics framework on Ubuntu, the popular Linux-based operating system. Apache Hadoop is an open-source framework for crunching gargantuan amounts of data stored on large hardware clusters. It’s popular among firms large and small; research firm IDC suggested last year that the Hadoop market could hit $812.8 million by 2016. Under the terms of the agreement, MapR Technologies (which offers its own Hadoop distribution) and Canonical will offer the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. In addition, MapR has made the source code for the component packages of the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop available via GitHub. Canonical will bundle MapR M3 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 12.10 through the Ubuntu Partner Archive. In addition, the MapR M5 and M7 editions for Apache Hadoop, each with their own particular features, will end up certified for Ubuntu at some at-yet-undefined point. MapR and Canonical are also working on a Juju Charm that will facilitate the deployment of MapR M3 on private and public clouds standardized on OpenStack, an open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform developed as part of a joint effort by Rackspace and NASA back in 2010. This isn’t the first time that MapR has paired with another company on a Hadoop project. Back in August 2012, it joined forces with Nimbula to produce a turnkey solution for deploying a Hadoop cluster on the Nimbula Director private-cloud platform; Nimbula claimed that the result could deploy a Hadoop cluster in less than two minutes, launch those clusters into the cloud without the need to requisition hardware, and share infrastructure between Hadoop and non-Hadoop workloads.