Apache Avro is a common data format in big data solutions. Now, these types of files are easily accessible to Oracle Autonomous Databases. One of Avro's key...
Apache Avro is a common data format in big data solutions. Now, these types of files are easily accessible to Oracle Autonomous Databases. One of Avro's key benefits is that it enables efficient data exchange between applications and services. Data storage is compact and efficient – and the file format itself supports schema evolution. It does this by including the schema within each file – with an explanation of the characteristics of each field. In a previous post about...
Apache Avro is a common data format in big data solutions. Now, these types of files are easily accessible to Oracle Autonomous Databases. One of Avro's key benefits is that it enables efficient...
You have idea, you have feedback, you want to be involved in the products and services you use. Of course, so here is the new Idea Lab for Big Data, where you...
You have idea, you have feedback, you want to be involved in the products and services you use. Of course, so here is the new Idea Lab for Big Data, where you can submit your ideas and vote on ideas submitted by others. Visit the Big Data Idea Lab now. What does the Idea Lab let you do, and how do we use your feedback? For all our products and services we (Product Management) define a set of features and functionality that will enhance the products and solves customer...
You have idea, you have feedback, you want to be involved in the products and services you use. Of course, so here is the new Idea Lab for Big Data, where you can submit your ideas and vote on...
Last week Cloudera announced the general availability of Cloudera CDH 6 (read more from Cloudera here). With that, many of the ecosystem components switched to...
Last week Cloudera announced the general availability of Cloudera CDH 6 (read more from Cloudera here). With that, many of the ecosystem components switched to a newer base version, which should provide significant benefits for customer applications. This post describes Oracle's strategy to support our customers in up-taking C6 quickly and efficiently, with minimal disruption to their infrastructure. The Basics One of the key differences with C6 are its core versions, which...
Last week Cloudera announced the general availability of Cloudera CDH 6 (read more from Cloudera here). With that, many of the ecosystem components switched to a newer base version, which...
BDA 4.13 will have the following features, versions etc.: Of course an update to CDH. In this case we are going to uptake CDH 5.15.0. However, the release date...
BDA 4.13 will have the following features, versions etc.: Of course an update to CDH. In this case we are going to uptake CDH 5.15.0. However, the release date of 5.15.1 is pretty close to our planned date, and so, we may choose to pick up that version We are adding the following features: Support for SHA-2 certificates with Kerberos Upgrade and Expand for Kafka clusters (the create was introduced in BDA 4.12) A disk shredding utility, where you easily "erase" data on the...
BDA 4.13 will have the following features, versions etc.: Of course an update to CDH. In this case we are going to uptake CDH 5.15.0. However, the release date of 5.15.1 is pretty close to our...
We are very excited to announce our newly launched big data community on the Cloud Customer Connect Community. As of today we are live and ready to help,...
We are very excited to announce our newly launched big data community on the Cloud Customer Connect Community. As of today we are live and ready to help, discuss and ensure your questions are answered and comments are taken on board. How do you find us? Easy, go to the community main page. Then do the following to start asking your questions on big data: Once you are here, click on the thing you want from us, in this case I would assume that you want some answers on some...
We are very excited to announce our newly launched big data community on the Cloud Customer Connect Community. As of today we are live and ready to help, discuss and ensure your questions are answered...
Just wanted to give a quick update. I am pleased to announce that Oracle Big Data SQL 3.2.1 is now available. This release provides support for Oracle...
Just wanted to give a quick update. I am pleased to announce that Oracle Big Data SQL 3.2.1 is now available. This release provides support for Oracle Database 12.2.0.1. Here are some key details: Existing customers using Big Data SQL 3.2 do not need to take this update; Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 support is the reason for the update. Big Data SQL 3.2.1 can be used for both Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 and 12.2.0.1 deployments For Oracle Database 12.2.0.1, Big Data SQL 3.2.1...
Just wanted to give a quick update. I am pleased to announce that Oracle Big Data SQL 3.2.1 is now available. This release provides support for Oracle Database 12.2.0.1. Here are some key details:...
According to latest analysts reports and data breaches statistics, Data Protection is rising up to be the most important IT issue in the coming years! Due to...
According to latest analysts reports and data breaches statistics, Data Protection is rising up to be the most important IT issue in the coming years! Due to increasing threats and cyber-attacks, new privacy regulations are being implemented such as the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), are also being enforced and the increasing adoption of Public Cloud also legitimate these new Cyber Security requirements. Data Lake/Hub environments can be a...
According to latest analysts reports and data breaches statistics, Data Protection is rising up to be the most important IT issue in the coming years! Due to increasing threats and cyber-attacks, new...
The latest release of Oracle Big Data Lite is now available for download on OTN. Version 4.11 has the following products installed and configured: Oracle...
The latest release of Oracle Big Data Lite is now available for download on OTN. Version 4.11 has the following products installed and configured: Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.9 Oracle Database 12c Release 1 Enterprise Edition (12.1.0.2) - including Oracle Big Data SQL-enabled external tables, Oracle Multitenant, Oracle Advanced Analytics, Oracle OLAP, Oracle Partitioning, Oracle Spatial and Graph, and more. Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH5.13.1) Cloudera...
The latest release of Oracle Big Data Lite is now available for download on OTN. Version 4.11 has the following products installed and configured: Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.9 Oracle Database 12c...
Sometimes the simplest tasks make life (too) hard. Consider simple things like uploading some new data sets into your Hadoop cluster in the cloud and then...
Sometimes the simplest tasks make life (too) hard. Consider simple things like uploading some new data sets into your Hadoop cluster in the cloud and then getting to work on the thing you really need to do: analyzing that data. This new free tutorial shows you how to easily and quickly do the grunt work with Big Data Manager in Big Data Cloud Service (learn more here) enabling you to worry about analytics, not moving files. The approach taken here is to take a file that...
Sometimes the simplest tasks make life (too) hard. Consider simple things like uploading some new data sets into your Hadoop cluster in the cloud and then getting to work on the thing you really...
