[May 24, 2012] MapR announces new features Tweet May 24, 2012 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- Apache Hadoop distribution provider MapR Technologies announced on Wednesday a range of initiatives that establishes the company as the most open distribution for Hadoop. The announcement follows MapR's inclusion in the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) as a solution provider member of the Data Services Workgroup to define enterprise requirements to address interoperability, security and manageability of Big Data frameworks. The company also announced on Wednesday the release of a fully compliant ODBC 3.52 driver as part of the MapR Distribution, allowing users to leverage hundreds of commercial and open source SQL-based tools, such as query builders and BI applications including Excel, Tableau, MicroStrategy and a range of 100% open source SQL tools, such as Kaimon. The standard Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) access allows SQL-based applications to run SQL queries (via Hive) and provides open database access through a standard API. In addition, the company announced full support for Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM), enabling MapR to authenticate users with common authentication back-ends, including Active Directory, LDAP, NIS, Kerberos and a range of third-party services. MapR also announced the immediate availability of source code for the various components of the MapR distribution. No pricing details were disclosed. Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]