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MapR, one of the three big vendors of the Hadoop open-source big data software, is today announcing MapR Streams, a new piece of software for sending many kinds of data around a company.MapR Streams is a type of publish-subscribe messaging system. It’s comparable to a tool like Apache Kafka.“Performance is basically very similar to Kafka,” MapR cofounder and chief executive John Schroeder told VentureBeat in an interview.