Learn about the combination of MapR and Splunk: Analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores

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Innovative enterprises have progressed from proof-of-concepts to pro-
duction deployment and expansion with Apache™ Hadoop® to evolve
their business and stay ahead of the competition. Hadoop solves many
of the big data problems enterprises face by accommodating the ever-
growing data volumes and new data sources for all business functions.
However, extracting insights from the data stored in Hadoop can get
cumbersome.
Hunk brings Splunk software’s big data analytics stack to your data in
Hadoop and NoSQL data stores. Explore, analyze, and visualize data,
create dashboards and share reports from a flexible analytics platform
that integrates directly with the MapR cluster. Simply point Hunk at a
MapR cluster and start exploring data immediately.
Schema-on-the-fly technology means that you don’t need to know
anything about the data in advance. Hunk automatically adds structure
and identifies fields of interest at search time, such as keywords, pat-
terns over time, top values, and more. Hunk delivers the flexible, inter-
active analytics experience that business and IT teams need in working
with raw unstructured data in Hadoop.
When you start a query in Hunk, it streams back interim results imme-
diately while the MapReduce job continues to run in the background.
This delivers a faster, more interactive experience because you can
pause and refine queries without having to wait for full MapReduce
jobs to complete.
Hunk Virtual IndexingTM
of Raw Unstructured Data in the MapR
Distribution for Hadoop
Hassle-Free,
Easy-to-Use Big
Data Analytics
Enter Hunk™:
Splunk Analytics
for Hadoop
and NoSQL
Data Stores
At-A Glance
Splunk was founded to pursue
a disruptive new vision: make
machine data accessible, usable
and valuable to everyone.
Headquartered in San Francisco, CA
with 1,000+ employees worldwide.
Product Snapshot
Hunk™: Splunk Analytics for
Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores
allows you to explore, analyze
and visualize data all from one
integrated platform that you can
use in minutes. Hunk automatically
extracts data from event logs
and other raw unstructured
machine data.
Solution Highlights
Minimize Learning Curve
Empower business and IT teams to
analyze raw data in Hadoop with
self-service analytics and role-
based access security. Empower
anyone in your entire organization
to rapidly explore, analyze, and
visualize data residing in Hadoop.
Peace of Mind
SLA-driven, business-critical
operations are supported by
eliminating all single points of
failure on your analytics platform.
Deeper Insight
Stream massive amounts of
data into the Hadoop cluster
and leverage Splunk Virtual
Index™ technology, schema-on-
the-fly search, and integrated
visualizations to unlock the
business value of data in Hadoop.
Solution Brief
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Architecture

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The Power of
Hunk and MapR
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About MapR
MapR and Splunk bring leading innovation to make Hadoop easy,
dependable, fast, and ready for all big data analytics. With its built-in
24x7 high availability, seamless failover, flexible recovery, and resilience,
the MapR Distribution for Hadoop provides the only enterprise-grade
platform for Hunk.
With the combination of MapR and Hunk, understanding big data in
Hadoop no longer requires a team of engineers. Hunk enables you to
detect patterns and find anomalies across terabytes or petabytes of raw
data in your MapR clusters without specialized skillsets, fixed schemas
or months of development. Using Hunk, you can experience dramatic
improvements in the speed and simplicity of getting insights from big
data in Hadoop.
The ability for any authorized user in your organization to easily access,
analyze, and act on vast amounts of raw unstructured data in Hadoop
can drive:
• Predictive Marketing Analytics
• Supply Chain Optimization
• Risk Management
• Operational Analytics
With MapR and Hunk, unlocking the business value of data in Hadoop is
faster and easier than you thought possible.
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) provides the leading software platform for
real-time Operational Intelligence. Splunk® software and cloud services
enable organizations to search, monitor, analyze, and visualize ma-
chine-generated big data coming from websites, applications, servers,
networks, sensors, and mobile devices. More than 7,000 enterprises,
government agencies, universities, and service providers in over 90
countries use Splunk software to deepen business and customer un-
derstanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service
performance, and reduce cost.
MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-
grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-
time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability,
ease-of-use, and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and
streaming applications in one unified big data platform.
Hunk Benefits
Fast to Deploy and Drive Value
Hunk integrates the process of
data exploration, analysis, and
visualization into a single, fluid
user experience.
Interactive Analytics
One integrated platform to
interact with data, change
perspectives on-the-fly, and
preview results as MapReduce
jobs are running.
Works With What You Have Today
Preview results and interactively
search across your MapR clusters.
MapR Benefits
Top-Ranked Hadoop Distribution
One unified big data platform for
Hadoop, NoSQL, database, and
streaming applications.
Proven Production Readiness
Get both the benefits of open
source with community innovation,
portability and flexibility, with
unique architectural enhancements
for enterprise-grade dependability,
security, and multi-tenancy.
Consistent High Performance
Eliminate downtime and
performance bottlenecks, while
ensuring business continuity.
Try MapR & Hunk Today!
Get the MapR Sandbox for Hadoop
A fully functional Hadoop cluster
running in a virtual machine.
Visit mapr.com/sandbox
Download Hunk for Free
Get a 60-day trial of Hunk
and connect.
Visit splunk.com/hunk