MapR on the Google Compute Engine will soon be available as a free private beta for a select number of users.
Data analytics software provider MapR
Technologies has made its enterprise-grade Apache Hadoop distribution available
to run on the new Google Compute Engine, introduced at Google I/O in San
Francisco on June 28.
MapR on the Google Compute Engine will be
available as a free private beta for a select number of users, MapR said. Those
interested in big data analytics should review and fill out the nomination form.
The combination of the new Google service and
MapR's Hadoop enables users to provision large MapR clusters on demand and to
deploy it as a cloud-based analytics system.
Google originally developed MapReduce to
become its internal search framework, which later inspired the community
development of Hadoop under Doug Cutting at Yahoo. Now, through MapR's
distribution for Hadoop, IT managers can use Google's infrastructure for big
data analytics.
MapR demonstrated what it claimed to be a price/performance
breakthrough on stage at the Google I/O conference by completing a 1TB TeraSort
job in 1 minute, 20 seconds. This result was achieved on a Google Compute
Engine cluster in the cloud with 1,256 nodes, 1,256 disks and 5,024 coresat a
cost of about $16 for the entire subscription-based transaction.
This result compares with the existing world
record of 1 minute, 2 seconds that was set with a physical cluster with more
than four times the disks, twice as many cores, 200 more servers and at an
estimated cost of more than $5 million.
The integration of MapR with Google Compute Engine includes
a menu of standard MapR compute configurations. Users have the flexibility
within Google Compute Engine to pay on demand and spin up more than 1,000 node
clusters if necessary.
Chris Preimesberger was named Editor-in-Chief of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, the Fiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz
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Chris Preimesberger was named Editor-in-Chief of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, the Fiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz
