back to article Hadoop ODP: No thanks says MapR, and Cloudera isn't impressed either

Hadoop disty MapR has kicked the Open Data Platform into touch, saying it only benefits competitor Hortonworks and provides a way for Pivotal to get out of a hole. The ODP was set up in February, with the aim of Linux-ising Hadoop with a tested reference core for the software. Cloudera, one of the three leading Hadoop …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Meh...

    "He added: “75 per cent of Hadoop implementations run on MapR and Cloudera.” So without them, the ODP is a dead duck [our polite words]."

    I wonder why it took the CEO of MapR several months to respond to ODP.

    The issue is that its hard to gauge the impact of his statement. There is a large percentage of companies that don't pay for support and use either Apache release for free. (Freetards)

    But also... while MapR has few defections, there's a lot of flip/flop in the Apache world.

    Horton is buying customers as they burn through their capital in an effort to gain market share.

    While I personally agree with JS's point of view, that ODP was an effort to save face for Pivotal, and to try and give credibility to Hortonwork's marketing message, it doesn't represent the Hadoop / Big Data community at all.

    Posted Anon for the obvious reasons.

    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

      Re: I wonder why it took the CEO of MapR several months to respond to ODP

      Maybe it is because he took his time reviewing the situation and making sure his opinion was founded ?

      Hopefully, that's the reason.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    “applications are interoperable among Hadoop distributions”.

    HA HAHAHAHAHA

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      @AC portable apps.

      Yes, your applications are portable if you write to the Hadoop APIs

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Meh++

    Note how MapR say "Mapr+ CDH installations", and don't define "installation". MapR is an expensive nich option for the wealthy enterprise who believe the MapR sales team and are prepared to pay for a single-vendor filesystem and HBase-like column store. Which is why MapR don't come close to a 75% market share on their own.

    Cloudera's reasons for not embracing ODP not technical but strategic: why bother. MapR though? Maybe they just think that they are better. But the delay implies they had to think pretty hard.

    (an anonymous freetard seeing no need to give MapR any money. HDFS+Kafka+Spark+HBase = $0, leaving more for Amazon S3 and EC2.)

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      @AC Re: Meh++

      I don't know what you thought you were reading.

      MapR doesn't claim 75% and it always parsed out that it was MapR + Cloudera.

      The point was that Hortonworks only represents approximately 25% of the market.

      While you admit to being a freetard, it means that you're probably running either straight Apache which means you're not a commercial entity, or you're running a free version. (Which MapR does offer in their M3 product.)

      MapR's CEO got it right. Just wondering why he took so long in writing his blog. Unfortunately for his numbers... Hortonworks has been busy converting Cloudera customers to their release. This would explain why they are hemorrhaging cash at a tune of a million a day.

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