Oracle’s Big Plans For Big Data

AnalysisBy Doug Henschen, InformationWeek, Oct 4th, 2011

Presented by Group 7:Sam Tucker and Ayoung Noh

Summary

• Oracle is going to release new big data hardware and software

• Big Data Appliance• Supports NoSQL

• Implements R statistical analysis software

• Implements Hadoop for cloud and parallel processing

Big Data Appliance

Big Data Appliance

• Used for social media, web log, mobile and geospatial data

• Up to 432 Terabytes of storage

• Linux based

• Automatically generates Java code to run MapReduce functions

• Intended to make Hadoop more accessible

• Uses Oracle NoSQL – interprets new data on the fly without a schema

Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine• 40 CPU cores

• Exalytics suite has 1 terabyte of RAM (efficiently compresses data)

• Provides predictive and statistical models and graphical analysis

• Used in conjunction with other tools to bring them easily into memory: Hadoop and MapReduce

• Other Oracle products bring data into memory for analysis almost as quickly

Why is it interesting?

• Represents a new trend in DB Design

• Include an open-source version of Apache Hadoop software backed with Oracle enterprise support service

• Oracle R Enterprise will be backwards compatible with existing R applications

• Less than a year ago, Oracle said that NoSQL was unimportant

Relationship With Course

Relevant to chapters of

•Physical DB Design (current topic)

•Relational Data Model

•Data Mining

•Big Data etc.

References

• Doug Henschen, InformationWeek, Oct 4th, 2011, “Oracle’s Big Plans For Big Data Analysis” <http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/info_management/231700205>

• Doug Henschen, InformationWeek, Oct 4th, 2011, “In-Memory Analytics Appliance Debuts At Open World” <http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterprise_apps/231700046>

• Timothy P. Morgan, The Register, Oct 3rd, 2011, “Oracle rolls its own NoSQL and Hadoop” <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/03/oracle_big_data_appliance/>

• Picture of slide 4 “Big Data Appliance” is from: <http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/10/03/oracle_big_data_appliance.jpg>