MapR Executives to Present on Apache Drill, IoT, and Healthcare Data Architectures at Hadoop Summit

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 1, 2016) -  MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry's only Converged Data Platform, today announced it will present on stage at the 9th Annual Hadoop Summit, held in San Jose, from June 28 - June 30. MapR is a Platinum Sponsor of the three day event that features Apache Hadoop thought leaders who will showcase successful Hadoop use cases, share development and administration tips and tricks, and educate organizations about how best to leverage Apache Hadoop as a key component in their enterprise data architecture.

MapR featured conference sessions at Hadoop Summit include:

When: Tuesday, June 28 at 5:50 PM
Where: San Jose McEnery Convention Center, Ballroom C
What: Ted Dunning, chief application at MapR, will present "Spark SQL versus Apache Drill: Different Tools with Different Rules." In this session, Ted will compare and contrast these technologies across a variety of parameters - architectures, ease of use, data types and data sources supported. A demonstration on a rich set of queries on some very interesting datasets to bring the representative use cases to life for both Spark SQL and Apache Drill.

When: Wednesday, June 29 at 12:20 PM
Where: San Jose McEnery Convention Center, Room 212
What: Sunil Patil, solutions architect at MapR, and Sridhar Reddy, director of professional services, will lead a technical session on, "Designing and Implementing Your IoT Solution with Open Source." During this session on Internet of Things, they will discuss why open source software is becoming a de facto technology choice for enterprise organizations.

When: Wednesday, June 29 at 5:00 PM
Where: San Jose McEnery Convention Center, Room 212
What: Will Ochandarena, director of product management at MapR, will co-present with Brad Anderson, Liaison Technologies on, "The Stream is the Database - Revolutionizing Healthcare Data Architecture." In this talk, they will describe how stream-first architectures can solve these challenges, and how this has been implemented at Liaison Technologies.

MapR will also present at Strata + Hadoop World London on June 1; Big Data Everywhere in Washington, DC on June 2; Predictive Analytics World for Business in Chicago, IL on June 20; and Connected Cars in London on June 28-30.

About MapR Technologies
MapR enables organizations to create disruptive advantage and long-term value from their data with the industry's only Converged Data Platform, which delivers distributed processing, real-time analytics, and enterprise-grade requirements across cloud and on-premise environments -- while leveraging the significant ongoing development in open source technologies including Spark and Hadoop. Organizations with the most demanding production needs, including sub-second response for fraud prevention, secure and highly available data-driven insights for better healthcare, petabyte analysis for threat detection, and integrated operational and analytic processing for improved customer experiences, run on MapR. A majority of customers achieves payback in fewer than 12 months and realizes greater than 5X ROI. MapR ensures customer success through world-class professional services and with free on-demand training that over 50,000 developers, data analysts and administrators have used to close the big data skills gap. Amazon, Cisco, Google, HPE, Microsoft, SAP, and Teradata are part of the worldwide MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with MapR on LinkedIn, and Twitter.