- By Bhasker Gupta
Enterprise Big Data market is a heated area and there are many players that have come up in last years to conquer this space. Albeit, a well-crowded space, there are 3 players that are at the forefront and compete head on with each other - MapR, Cloudera and Hortonworks. All three are well funded; in fact MapR got its funding last year from Google capital.
Given this, there is still time to find who might win this race. Hortonworks boast of open source capabilities, Cloudera has the first mover advantage. We spoke to Martin Darling, the Vice President (Asia Pacific & Japan) at MapR, about future strategy of MapR.
So, Where’s MapR?
We are in the middle of the biggest change in enterprise computing in decades: a shift in how data is stored, analyzed and processed is changing the way
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Bhasker Gupta
Bhasker is a techie turned media entrepreneur. Bhasker started AIM in 2012, out of a desire to speak about emerging technologies and their commercial, social and cultural impact. Earlier, Bhasker worked as Vice President at Goldman Sachs. He is a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.
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