Announcements

Today, with great pride, MapD is announcing a partnership with the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA).

Today’s launch of MapD Cloud includes two methods for importing data: transfering from an AWS S3 bucket, or uploading from a local text-delimited file.

We’re excited to announce our newest addition to the MapD executive team. Aaron Williams joins us today as VP of Global Community, responsible for fostering our growing developer, user and open source communities.

We have rebranded MapD to now be known as OmniSci™.

One of the things we are most excited about as a newly open source company is the potential to help kickstart a larger ecosystem of GPU computing. This is why we are particularly excited about our work with Continuum Analytics and H2O.ai to found the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) and its first project, the GPU Data Frame (GDF), as our first step toward an open ecosystem of end-to-end GPU computing.

This week we release version 3.1 of MapD, which comes after some truly giant news over the last few weeks, and adds a number of useful new features.

I asked the audience a pressing question at the Quandl Alternative Data Conference last week: "How many of you know you can do more with GPUs than just play Doom or Quake?" The crowd laughed as they raised their hands. The word is getting out. GPUs aren't just for video games anymore. They've already revolutionized AI. Now they're transforming analytics.

Today, we are excited to launch our new positioning for MapD - the Extreme Analytics Platform™, along with a brand new website. This has been a fun, challenging and detailed project.

It’s nice to be cool, particularly when the folks naming you cool are none other than the esteemed team at Gartner. It is why we are so excited that Gartner chose MapD as a Cool Vendor in DBMS.