Hi Preeth -
MapR M7 HBase is indeed an interesting development -- I am in the process of deploying it on a project and will look at running Titan on it after the base system is in place.
For the curious, MapR recently released an enterprise-grade HBase that fixes almost all of the issues and complexities of running HBase:
* No more RegionServers
* Added High Availability via replication and instant recovery so no more single points of failure
* Simplified architecture that automates region splits and self-tuning
* Avoids garbage collection
* Snapshots for point-in-time recovery without downtime
* Mirroring to automatically replicate differential data across clusters in real-time to multiple datacenters
* Share cluster with multiple jobs
* Replaced HDFS with MapR FS, which enables you to mount the cluster like a normal NFS volume
Also, both Amazon and Google are offering hosted versions MapR M7 Hadoop and HBase with pay-as-you-go-plans (no upfront fees), and MapR is providing a $1000 credit on Google:
- James