Continuing on a rapid growth path, MapR announced this morning that it has extended its global footprint to Japan with a new office in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company also entered agreements with system integrators NS Solutions and Nautilus Technologies to resell its Hadoop distributions in the region.

“MapR is pleased to work with NS Solutions and Nautilus Technologies, organizations with excellent reputations that share our commitment to delivering only the highest quality solutions to enterprise customers,” said Steve Fitz, the senior vice president of worldwide field operations fpr MapR. “We believe our platform for Hadoop and NoSQL has enormous potential for adoption in this vibrant and growing market as evidenced by Recruit Technologies’ successes to date.”

MapR’s big entry into the Japanese market comes a month after the Hadoop distributor established its Nordic headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. The firm appointed Patrik Svanström as regional director for Nordic countries, and hired virtualization expert Ulf Andreasson to spearhead local development efforts.

Svanström joined MapR from Hewlett Packard, where he was responsible for 120 employees and a $500 million revenue stream. He previously served in senior management positions for Oracle, Xerox and Infor. Andreasson has an equally impressive track record, having served as the head of enterprise management for the EMEA region at VMware.

In the last 9 months, MapR doubled its European staff and expanded to nearly half a dozen new locations, including London, Paris and Munich, Germany. The company also bolstered its offering portfolio with M7, a beefed up version of Hadoop that leverages HBase and a proprietary file system to accelerate queries.

The latest M7 release, unveiled yesterday, offers four to ten times greater throughput and sub-20ms read latency across a wide range of workloads, most notably mission-critical enterprise apps.