MapR Extends Big Data Reach to Docker Containers

For the better part of a year now, MapR Technologies has been making a case for deploying a converged data platform based on Hadoop that has been optimized for microservices. Now the company is extending that platform to add support for Docker containers.Jack Norris, senior vice president for data and applications at MapR, says the Converged Data platform provides a means to create stateful applications using Docker containers at a higher level of abstraction without having to be concerned about whether the underlying physical storage systems support Docker containers.That approach, he says, makes it much easier for Docker applications to share access to a common pool of data with a variety of big data applications. It also goes a long way to simplifying some of the challenges associated with employing Docker applications that require access to large volumes of data, he adds.