MapR on AWS rivals Amazon’s own Elastic MapReduce service, which the cloud giant recently upgraded to version 4.0.0, integrating the latest versions of Hadoop, Spark and Apache Hive.

Amazon announced the release of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0.0 today, which includes, among other things, support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic Map Reduce platform with a new version of Hadoop and updated support for its data analytics ecosystem. Elastic Map Reduce is AWS platform for ...

One of the really great things about Amazon Web Services (AWS) is that AWS makes it easy to create structures in the cloud that would be extremely tedious and time-consuming to create on-premises. For ...

MapR Technologies gives enterprises another alternative channel for its Hadoop distribution with placement in the AWS Marketplace.

The team contacted AWS and worked out an arrangement to allow UD students to use HADOOP with AWS as the server provider. “In hindsight, this development was actually beneficial because it opened us up ...

On the data front, AWS offers a suite of integrated tools that is unrivaled in the industry. The company just launched a pre-built data lake service called Lake Formation that runs on the S3 object ...

Once you've created a Hadoop cluster within Amazon Web Services, you can process data using a hive script.

By the time AWS held its first re:Invent in 2012, the company had launched over a dozen services, including the Hadoop-like Amazon SimpleDB in 2007 and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) in 2008. In ...