MapR and Lucid Imagination Join to Enhance LucidWorks Search Platform

MapR Technologies, a provider of advanced distribution for Apache Hadoop, announced a strategic partnership with Lucid Imagination, the commercial company for Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology.

In a release Frank Calderon, president and COO of Lucid Imagination said, “Search is intrinsic to a successful strategy of dealing with Big Data. The power to leverage MapR’s Hadoop distribution with LucidWorks offers organizations advantages including full data protection with unlimited scale.”

The agreement is expected to enable the integration of the dependability, ease of use and performance features of the MapR Distribution with LucidWorks search platform. Enterprise users will benefit from the platform’s underlying Lucene/Solr search innovations and leverage the capabilities of Big Data analytics.

The immense growth in unstructured data and dependable access to relevant data helps in deriving business insights from Big Data analysis. Customers with Hadoop Big Data software can use MapR’s distribution capabilities to realize significant performance improvements, reliability, and of ease of use enhancements. Lucid Imagination’s Lucene/Solr platform users can now optimize search solutions.

John Schroeder, CEO and co-founder, MapR Technologies revealed, “The Lucid Imagination team is well-regarded as key committers to the Lucene/Solr project and one of the leading innovators in the development and growing popularity of open source search. We see our partnership with Lucid Imagination as a key endorsement of our commercial Hadoop distribution.”

Lucene/Solr is used in mission-critical applications related to new media, e-commerce, embedded search applications, content management, social media, and security and intelligence, said officials.

Open source search-enabled applications help companies access enterprise data and content cost effectively. Such solutions are preferred by organizations like Boeing, EMC Corporation, Zappos, National Institutes of Health, Lockheed Martin (News - Alert) Corporation, Qualcomm Inc. and many others.

Officials added that MapR’s innovative distribution makes Hadoop a dependable compute platform. MapR transforms Hadoop into an easy, dependable and fast solution. MapR’s Distribution is integrated, tested and hardened besides being completely compatible with Hadoop APIs including HBase and HDFS and requires no changes to Hadoop applications.

Lucid Imagination recently unveiled LucidWorks 2.0, an advanced open source platform for accelerating and simplifying development of highly accurate, scalable and cost-effective search application.