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Srivas: Cloudera and Hortonworks are disingenuous about their open source control
“I think that's a bit disingenuous on Hortonworks and Cloudrass part to say that Because they would like to, so the, here's the dirty little truth about open source software, open source vendors, right? I love open source as long as it's my open source and not …”
Srivas: A single Apache HDFS cluster handles roughly 100 million files
“HDFS, a single cluster, can do about a hundred million files.”
Srivas: Open source does not guarantee high software quality
“It's not clear that open source equals good quality yet.”
Srivas: The era of rigid database schemas is over
“The old schema, rigid schema is gone. I mean, if you're still waiting, thinking that it's gonna come back, it's not. It's over.”
Srivas: Early founders must intentionally avoid hiring people like themselves
“And you have to try to hire people who are not like you. I mean, basically, that's the first advice. Because you tend to be attracted to people who are like you, and in the beginning you really want a big variety of people, and not from the same DNA.”
Srivas: First funding rounds build product; later rounds fund pure sales
“Because the way this venture money flows is that you get the first bunch of money for building the product, and not again. After that, you get the money for selling it.”
Srivas: MapR powers a global email provider with 1.5 billion accounts
“We are now, from a file system perspective, we are powering one of the largest email providers in the world. Ok, ah, when I say largest email providers, everybody of you probably is on it, ah, one and a half billion email accounts.”
Srivas: India's Aadhaar biometric database runs on MapR across four datacenters
“Now, this is running on MapRDB in four data centers worldwide, in across India.”
Srivas: MapR provided its database software to India's Aadhaar project for free
“We gave it for free, by the way, right, because we thought it was very important.”
Srivas: A single self-driving car produces one terabyte of data hourly
“So it's a single self-driving car produces one terabyte per hour.”
Srivas: Next scale of big data requires thousands of edge processing clusters
“I think the real next scale in, in Stefan's graph is you need thousands of clusters that do edge processing everywhere.”
Srivas: Almost every enterprise now has a Hadoop budget item
“Every company now has a Hadoop budget item. Almost every company.”
Srivas: India's Aadhaar biometric system has registered 930 million people
“There's nine hundred and thirty million people online right now.”
Srivas: Startups should avoid emulating Google or Facebook engineering infrastructure
“Technology wise, they are more advanced, but there's only one Google and one Facebook, right, and everybody else is not like that, so don't try to do that. I mean, as a startup, that's very extreme.”
Srivas interviewed 50 Hadoop-using companies before founding MapR
“You know, well, before we started Mapper, I spoke to, like, about 40 or 50 people who were using Hadoop. 50 companies.”
Srivas: Aadhaar will take 2.5 years to achieve full enrollment in India
“At the rate of one and a half million a day, they're gonna go for another two and a half years before everybody's on.”
Srivas: MapR has reached 1,000 customers in four years
“We have about a thousand customers now, right? In four years.”