Gurunavi Chooses MapR Distribution for Apache™ Hadoop® to Strengthen its Big Data Analysis

Japan’s largest restaurant search site selects Nautilus Technologies to provide support for building new MapR-based Hadoop infrastructure

SAN JOSE, Calif.--()--Nautilus Technologies, Inc., provider of enterprise middle-ware with consulting and development for Hadoop environment, and MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced that Gurunavi Inc., a leading restaurant search site in Japan, has chosen the MapR Distribution for Hadoop to leverage its big data and search history to provide greater value-add for its services. Nautilus will support deployment of Gurunavi’s new big data system, which is expected to take place in the summer of 2014.

Gurunavi faced an increasing amount of data, which pushed the limits of its Hadoop-based analysis platform. The company considered system expansion, but was concerned about the anticipated increase in operating costs. Gurunavi therefore decided to upgrade its system architecture and selected the MapR Distribution for Hadoop, an enterprise-grade Hadoop platform with unprecedented dependability and world-record speed, to extend the value of its big data environment.

Gurunavi selected MapR for several reasons, including:

Eliminates single point of failure (SPOF) in Hadoop NameNode — Removing performance bottlenecks, MapR reduces the number of servers required by one third and brings operational efficiencies and reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO).

Manages random read and write operations on Hadoop — By leveraging the industry standard NFS interface, MapR seamlessly integrates existing systems with big data analysis infrastructure and runs various file-based applications.

Provides multi-tenancy — MapR makes it possible to set respective department policies to ensure smooth operation and management.

Preserves job execution — Due to redundancy of jobs across nodes, MapR enables restarting of jobs from the point of failure.

Nautilus is an early adopter of Hadoop and has extensive experience with Hadoop infrastructure design, operation and management. Gurunavi selected Nautilus for its many achievements and to take advantage of its Asakusa Framework™, a development framework for Hadoop, to leverage Hadoop for analytic and business operation purposes.

Nautilus and MapR will work together to help Gurunavi collect and analyze big data, such as access logs and search logs, and plan to provide higher value-added services and greater satisfaction to Gurunavi users and member restaurants.

“Gurunavi is the largest restaurant search site in Japan that successfully brings restaurants and consumers together,” said Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, sales director from MapR Technologies Japan. “The company is revolutionizing how the food service industry operates with advanced big data analytics and we’re excited they have decided to work with MapR and Nautilus to accomplish their business objectives.”

For more information about the MapR Distribution for Hadoop, go here: www.mapr.com

To learn more about Nautilus Technolgies and its Akasuka Framwork, go here: http://www.nautilus-technologies.com/

“Gurunavi” is a registered trademark of Gurunavi Inc.

Asakusa Framework is a registered trademark of Nautilus Technologies, Inc.

MapR is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries.

About MapR Technologies

MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified distribution for Hadoop. MapR is used by more than 500 customers across financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and telecommunications as well as by leading Global 2000 and Web 2.0 companies. Amazon, Cisco, Google and HP are part of the broad MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. MapR is based in San Jose, CA. Connect with MapR on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

About Nautilus Technologies, Inc.

Nautilus offers the industrial strength middle-ware as follows, and provides the related consulting and development. 1. Asakusa Framework – OSS application framework for development of enterprise batch processing on Hadoop. 2.”Business Message Standard” Middleware provider – provides B2B middleware application for BMS standard for GS1 solution for value added electric data exchange for enterprise operations and enhanced supply chain management.

Contacts

MapR Technologies, Inc.
Beth Winkowski, 978-649-7189
bwinkowski@maprtech.com
or
Nancy Pieretti, 603-268-8007
npieretti@maprtech.com

Release Summary

Nautilus Technologies and MapR Technologies today announced that Gurunavi Inc., a leading restaurant search site in Japan, has chosen the MapR Distribution for Hadoop.

Contacts

MapR Technologies, Inc.
Beth Winkowski, 978-649-7189
bwinkowski@maprtech.com
or
Nancy Pieretti, 603-268-8007
npieretti@maprtech.com