Oracle has released its Big Data Appliance, which is claimed to help customers derive maximum business value from Big Data. Oracle Big Data Appliance is said to be an engineered system of hardware and software that incorporates Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop with Cloudera Manager, plus an open source distribution of R.
The system is also believed to feature Oracle NoSQL Database Community Edition and Oracle HotSpot Java Virtual Machine running on Oracle Linux. Oracle has also released its Big Data Connectors, a software product that helps customers easily integrate data stored in Hadoop and Oracle NoSQL Database with Oracle Database 11g.
Oracle Big Data Connectors software is claimed to be available for use with both Oracle Big Data Appliance and other Apache Hadoop-based systems. The bundle includes Oracle Loader for Hadoop which uses MapReduce processing to load data efficiently into Oracle Database 11g; Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop which is said to enable Oracle Data Integrator to generate Hadoop MapReduce programs through an easy-to-use graphical interface; Oracle Connector R which gives R users native, high performance access to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and MapReduce programming framework; and Oracle Direct Connector for Hadoop Distributed File System (ODCH), which enables the Oracle Database SQL engine to access data seamlessly from the Hadoop Distributed File System.
Oracle Big Data Connectors and Oracle NoSQL Database are available as standalone software products independent of Oracle Big Data Appliance.
Cetin Ozbutun, VP, Data Warehousing Technologies, Oracle said, "Oracle Big Data Appliance, in conjunction with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalytics and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, offers the broadest, most integrated product portfolio to help customers acquire and organise diverse data types, and then analyse them alongside existing enterprise data to discover new insights and make the most informed decisions."
