The Oracle Big Data Appliance consists of hardware and software from
Oracle Corporation sold as a
computer appliance
A computer appliance is a home appliance with software or firmware that is specifically designed to provide a specific computing resource. Such devices became known as ''appliances'' because of the similarity in role or management to a home ap ...
. It was announced in 2011,and is used for the consolidating and loading unstructured data into
Oracle Database software.
History
Oracle announced the Oracle Big Data Appliance on October 3, 2011, at Oracle OpenWorld.
It was similar to the
Oracle Exadata
The Oracle Exadata Database Machine (Exadata) is a computing platform optimized for running Oracle Databases.
Exadata is a combined hardware and software platform that includes scale-out Intel x86-64 compute and storage servers, RoCE or Infini ...
Database Machine and announced with the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine.
The original hardware components of the appliance consisted of a full rack configuration with 864GB of main memory and 432 TB of storage. A full rack consists of 18 servers nodes each of which had two 6-core Intel processors, 48 GB memory per node (upgradable to 96 GB or 144 GB), 12 x 2TB disks per node, InfiniBand Networking and 10 GbE connectivity.
Software
The product includes an open-source distribution of
Apache Hadoop. Support from
Cloudera
Cloudera, Inc. is an American software company providing enterprise data management systems that make significant use of Apache Hadoop. As of January 31, 2021, the company had approximately 1,800 customers.
History
Cloudera, Inc. was formed on J ...
was announced in January 2012.
The
Oracle NoSQL Database,
Oracle Data Integrator
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is an Extract, load and transform (ELT) (in contrast with the ETL common approach) tool produced by Oracle that offers a graphical environment to build, manage and maintain data integration processes in business inte ...
with an adapter for Hadoop Oracle Loader for Hadoop, an open source distribution of
R,
Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux (abbreviated OL, formerly known as Oracle Enterprise Linux or OEL) is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006. It is compiled from Red ...
, and
Oracle Java Hotspot Virtual Machine were also mentioned in the announcement.
References
External links
Oracle Big Data Appliance OverviewOracle Big Data Appliance Overview
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