It began with a shot across the bow to one of Apace Hadoop's pillars -- the file system, which was replaced by MapR's own (MapR-FS), providing the update and delete capabilities that HDFS lacked.

But when it comes down to picking the distributed system–be it a file-based system like HDFS or an object-based file store such as Amazon S3–the agreement ends and the debate begins. The Hadoop ...

“If you are an HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) customer with a supply of Hortonworks [and] you need a future, come to us. If you are a Databricks customer or want to be a Databricks ...