by Angela Guess
After a great deal of speculation, Oracle has rolled out their new Big Data Appliance, a product which includes “a distribution of the open source Hadoop programming framework, Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop, Oracle Loader for Hadoop, a distribution of the R open-source statistical analysis software, and the Oracle NoSQL database, according to a statement.”
Oracle has been less than positive about NoSQL solutions in the past, but apparently the company can no longer deny the growing power of NoSQL. According to the article, “The Oracle NoSQL database is a ‘distributed, highly scalable, key-value database’ that is ‘easy to install, configure and manage, supports a broad set of workloads and delivers enterprise-class reliability backed by enterprise-class Oracle support,’ according to an Oracle statement. It is based on Oracle’s Berkeley DB product. ‘Berkeley DB is probably the most popular key-value store out there on the web,’ but it uses a single index, Mendelsohn said. For the NoSQL database, Oracle ‘turned it from a single index to a distributed implementation, where you could have maybe 100 indexes,’ he said. Mendelsohn said that like Berkeley DB, the NoSQL database will be available in both open-source and commercial versions. The latter will probably gain premium features over time.”
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