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Re:MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely... by threeseed on Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:10PM (#20055947)
Spark is very much part of Hadoop. It uses Hadoop libraries throughout it including for the core part of reading/writing data

And that adage of big data can't fit in memory is nonsense these days. We run clusters with hundreds of terabytes of RAM which is very much big data. It's pretty easy and affordable with the cloud.

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Re:MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely... by notyourday on Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:13PM (#20056477)
When was the last time you bought a MapR license to use it in a cloud?

When MapR was selling them the M5 and M7 were deployed in a data center on servers.

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