The two companies also are developing a Canonical Juju Charm for deploying MapR Hadoop within private and public cloud computing environments.

MapR and Canonical announced a partnership to put the MapR Hadoop distribution on Ubuntu. The company also put its source code on GitHub.

Who will be the Ubuntu of Hadoop? In the midst of our conversation on standardization, Zedlewski highlighted how the Linux distributions differ, and what this might portend for Hadoop: ...