diff --git a/flink-shaded-hadoop/flink-shaded-hadoop2/pom.xml b/flink-shaded-hadoop/flink-shaded-hadoop2/pom.xml
index 86f3f9192ed44..c750bbda80584 100644
--- a/flink-shaded-hadoop/flink-shaded-hadoop2/pom.xml
+++ b/flink-shaded-hadoop/flink-shaded-hadoop2/pom.xml
@@ -652,4 +652,160 @@ under the License.
 			</dependency>
 		</dependencies>
 	</dependencyManagement>
+
+	<profiles>
+		<profile>
+			<!-- MapR build profile -->
+			<id>mapr</id>
+			<dependencies>
+				<dependency>
+					<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+					<artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
+					<version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+					<exclusions>
+						<!--
+							for MapR builds, we additionally exclude the MapR dependencies to not be
+							bundled with Flink, ensuring that the native MapR libraries will be used
+							and avoid incompatibitilies
+						-->
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.mapr.hadoop</groupId>
+							<artifactId>maprfs-core</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.mapr.hadoop</groupId>
+							<artifactId>hadoop2</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.mapr.hadoop</groupId>
+							<artifactId>maprfs</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.mapr.hadoop</groupId>
+							<artifactId>maprfs-diagnostic-tools</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.mapr.hadoop</groupId>
+							<artifactId>maprfs-jni</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.mapr.fs</groupId>
+							<artifactId>libprotodefs</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.mapr.fs</groupId>
+							<artifactId>mapr-hbase</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>asm</groupId>
+							<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
+							<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>tomcat</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jasper-compiler</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>tomcat</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jasper-runtime</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jsp-api-2.1</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jsp-2.1</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.eclipse.jdt</groupId>
+							<artifactId>core</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jersey-json</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.codehaus.jettison</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jettison</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>tomcat</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jasper-compiler</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>tomcat</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jasper-runtime</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.sun.jersey.jersey-test-framework</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jersey-test-framework-grizzly2</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.sun.jersey.jersey-test-framework</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jersey-test-framework-core</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jersey-grizzly2</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.glassfish.grizzly</groupId>
+							<artifactId>grizzly-http</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.glassfish.grizzly</groupId>
+							<artifactId>grizzly-framework</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.glassfish.grizzly</groupId>
+							<artifactId>grizzly-http-server</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.glassfish.grizzly</groupId>
+							<artifactId>grizzly-rcm</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.glassfish.grizzly</groupId>
+							<artifactId>grizzly-http-servlet</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
+							<artifactId>javax.servlet</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>
+							<artifactId>jersey-guice</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+						<!--We have to exclude beanutils because it is overlapping with commons-collections-->
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
+							<artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+					</exclusions>
+				</dependency>
+			</dependencies>
+		</profile>
+	</profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5fba16c51d1bb..17984d301b172 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -521,6 +521,42 @@ under the License.
 			</repositories>
 		</profile>
 
+		<profile>
+			<!--
+				MapR build profile. This build profile must be used together with "vendor-repos"
+				to be able to locate the MapR Hadoop / Zookeeper dependencies.
+			-->
+			<id>mapr</id>
+
+			<!--
+				use MapR Hadoop / Zookeeper dependencies appropriate for MapR 5.2.0;
+				users of different MapR versions should simply override these versions
+				with appropriate values.
+			-->
+			<properties>
+				<hadoop.version>2.7.0-mapr-1607</hadoop.version>
+				<zookeeper.version>3.4.5-mapr-1604</zookeeper.version>
+			</properties>
+
+			<dependencies>
+				<dependency>
+					<groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
+					<artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
+					<version>${zookeeper.version}</version>
+					<exclusions>
+						<!--
+							exclude netty, because MapR's Zookeeper distribution has
+							a conflicting Netty version with Flink's Netty dependency
+						-->
+						<exclusion>
+							<groupId>org.jboss.netty</groupId>
+							<artifactId>netty</artifactId>
+						</exclusion>
+					</exclusions>
+				</dependency>
+			</dependencies>
+		</profile>
+
 		<profile>
 			<!-- used for aggregating  ScalaDoc with JavaDoc -->
 			<id>aggregate-scaladoc</id>