Name: HPE Data Fabric Software
Rating: 4.1 (38 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is HPE Data Fabric Software?

HPE Data Fabric Software is a data platform software designed to enable organizations to manage, access, and analyze large-scale data across hybrid and multicloud environments. The software provides features such as data storage, data integration, and real-time data streaming, supporting both structured and unstructured data. It offers unified data access, support for various analytics tools, and capabilities for data governance and security. By facilitating the seamless movement and management of data, the software addresses challenges related to managing diverse data types, enabling organizations to derive insights and build data-driven applications while maintaining data consistency and control across distributed infrastructures.

Overall experience with HPE Data Fabric Software

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

30B + USD, Real Estate

FAVORABLE

“Unified Global Namespace Reduces Data Silos but Setup Remains Complex”

4.0

Sep 9, 2025

Unified data access with great performance has been transformative for our data management strategy

Sr Data Engineer

<50M USD, Services (non-Government)

CRITICAL

“MapR product is great, but need to improve stability and more efficient technical support.”

3.0

Oct 2, 2018

MapR ecosystem is great, but user group is relatively small. There are not many troubleshooting tips online as Cloudera. Our administration team has to submit tickets to MapR to tune our cluster. It takes up to several weeks to resolve issues for our developers.

About Company

Company Description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, known as a global edge-to-cloud company, concentrates on a range of technology and innovation services to connect, protect, analyze, and act on all data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, focusing on addressing business challenges through technology.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2015

Head office location

Houston, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Annual Revenue

10B-30B USD

Website

http://www.hpe.com

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The unified global namespace is a standout feature that eliminates data silos by ingesting data in the form of files, objects, streams and tables into one logical data plane. The multi protocol support allow our diverse set of applications and tools to access the same data without complex and brittle data movement or format conversions which improves both efficiency and data consistency

MapR's support to pig, hive, spark as well as oozie is great. Our pipelines were developed based on the MapR ecosystem. They are running stable and easy to manage.

-MapR-FS -encryption at directory level

The initial setup is complex and the admin team has a steep learning curve. The platform is incredibly powerful but the UI also requires a highly technical team for implementation and ongoing management.

1. Third party tools which support hdfs have to recompile to use on maprfs. Maprfs is totally not compatible with hdfs. I cannot understand. MapR can easily update the code to let hdfs path automatically be recognized as maprfs, but I don't know why mapr tries to discourage users to use tools which was developed only for hdfs. 2. Maprfs mount sometimes can become really slow, admin team has to reboot to resolve the issue. 3. The upgrade process has too many manual process. MapR can simplify it. 4. Overall the MapR streaming and MapRDB products are too expensive.

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10B+ USD

Real Estate

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Unified Global Namespace Reduces Data Silos but Setup Remains Complex

Architect

<50M USD

IT Services

Good features within filesystem

Jul 19, 2021

Nice optimization with MapR-FS (over old and limited HDFS) and cool feature of securing with encryption at directory level not the entire drive.

Software Test Engineer

1B-10B USD

Telecommunication

Supreme Big data Platform, Though little costly

Dec 30, 2019

The MapR Data Platform delivers speed, scale, and reliability with utmost security. It is architected with many performance optimizations to get the most out of your hardware.

Sales

50M-1B USD

Best big data platform, though better UI needed

5.0

Nov 10, 2019

MapR is built for performance and scale. Among other things, the file system is not HDFS and hence removes all the limitation of HFFS. It is a full read/write files system, which means you can use industry protocols like NFS to ingest data. The default file size is 8kb, which means you can do small writes instead of the 64MB/128MB that is required for HDFS.

Data Engineer

Energy and Utilities

MapR is a good choose for any company which is looking for create a big data cluster

Apr 6, 2019

I was responsible for that installation the MapR and configuration on 8 servers. MapR has a great file system for handle data input or output which is named MapR-FS. Our sensor datas are stored in MapR DB by OpentTSDB. I can say numerous good things about MapR. Maybe cost was a disadvantage. Because it is really expensive tool. They are working with high qualified engineers.

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Overall experience with HPE Data Fabric Software

“Unified Global Namespace Reduces Data Silos but Setup Remains Complex”

“MapR product is great, but need to improve stability and more efficient technical support.”

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Unified Global Namespace Reduces Data Silos but Setup Remains Complex

Good features within filesystem

Supreme Big data Platform, Though little costly

Best big data platform, though better UI needed

MapR is a good choose for any company which is looking for create a big data cluster

4.1

(38 Ratings)

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