<s>
MapR	B-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
business	B-Application
software	I-Application
company	O
headquartered	O
in	O
Santa	O
Clara	O
,	O
California	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MapR	B-General_Concept
software	O
provides	O
access	O
to	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
data	O
sources	O
from	O
a	O
single	O
computer	B-Architecture
cluster	I-Architecture
,	O
including	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
workloads	O
such	O
as	O
Apache	B-Application
Hadoop	I-Application
and	O
Apache	B-Language
Spark	I-Language
,	O
a	O
distributed	B-Protocol
file	I-Protocol
system	I-Protocol
,	O
a	O
multi-model	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
,	O
and	O
event	B-Application
stream	I-Application
processing	I-Application
,	O
combining	O
analytics	O
in	O
real-time	B-General_Concept
with	O
operational	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
technology	O
runs	O
on	O
both	O
commodity	B-Device
hardware	I-Device
and	O
public	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MapR	B-General_Concept
was	O
privately	O
held	O
with	O
original	O
funding	O
of	O
$9	O
million	O
from	O
Lightspeed	O
Venture	O
Partners	O
and	O
New	O
Enterprise	O
Associates	O
in	O
2009	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MapR	B-General_Concept
executives	O
come	O
from	O
Google	B-Application
,	O
Lightspeed	O
Venture	O
Partners	O
,	O
Informatica	O
,	O
EMC	O
Corporation	O
and	O
Veoh	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MapR	B-General_Concept
had	O
an	O
additional	O
round	O
of	O
funding	O
led	O
by	O
Redpoint	O
Ventures	O
in	O
August	O
,	O
2011	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2014	O
,	O
MapR	B-General_Concept
closed	O
a	O
$110	O
million	O
financing	O
round	O
that	O
was	O
led	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
Capital	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
contributed	O
to	O
the	O
Apache	B-Application
Hadoop	I-Application
projects	O
HBase	B-Language
,	O
Pig	B-Language
,	O
Apache	B-General_Concept
Hive	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
Apache	B-Language
ZooKeeper	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
MapR	B-General_Concept
entered	O
a	O
technology	O
licensing	O
agreement	O
with	O
EMC	O
Corporation	O
on	O
2011	O
,	O
supporting	O
an	O
EMC-specific	O
distribution	O
of	O
Apache	B-Application
Hadoop	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
MapR	B-General_Concept
was	O
selected	O
by	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
to	O
provide	O
an	O
upgraded	O
version	O
of	O
Amazon	O
's	O
Elastic	O
MapReduce	B-Operating_System
(	O
EMR	O
)	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MapR	B-General_Concept
broke	O
the	O
minute	O
sort	O
speed	O
record	O
on	O
Google	B-Application
's	I-Application
Compute	O
platform	O
.	O
</s>
