MapR Wins "Best Streaming Data Solution" in 2016 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 4, 2016) -  MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry's only Converged Data Platform, today announced that MapR Streams has been named "Best Streaming Data Solution" by DBTA readers voting in the Database Trends & Applications' Readers' Choice Award

"We are honored to have MapR Streams distinguished by DBTA readers as the market's Best Streaming Solution," said David Cross, chief marketing officer, MapR Technologies. "It confirms what we hear from our customers, that the scale and high-performance of MapR Streams enable them to build innovative applications that accelerate data analysis and positively impact business outcomes. Additionally, MapR eliminates traditional technology trade offs by simplifying the flow of data across data sources and destinations while reducing architectural complexity and significantly lowering total cost of ownership compared to other solutions in the market."

MapR Streams is a global publish-and-subscribe system, powering IoT-scale event-based processing. As a core component of the MapR Converged Data Platform, MapR Streams is part of a comprehensive platform that uniquely supports next-gen applications that drive competitive advantage through increased operational agility.

By bringing together data transport, processing and analytics in the same cluster, MapR Streams provides unified security, data integrity, high availability, and multi-tenancy capabilities to real-time streaming applications at massive scale. The result is the ability to capitalize on data while reducing hardware cost, data movement, and delays.

Database Trends and Applications is a magazine covering data and information management, big data, and data science. Winners in the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards are selected each year by the approximately 30,000 readers of Database Trends & Applications magazine and DBTA.com.

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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 on-going 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.