The document provides an overview of MapR's distributed file system and improvements over traditional Hadoop implementations. Key points include:
- MapR partitions files into containers that are distributed across nodes, improving performance over HDFS which requires multiple copies.
- MapReduce on MapR is faster through direct RPC to receivers during shuffling, very wide merges, and leveraging the distributed file system.
- Benchmark results show MapR outperforming Hadoop on streaming workloads, TeraSort, HBase random reads, and small file creation rates.
- The container architecture is said to scale to exabyte-sized clusters with modest memory requirements for metadata caching.