Oracle Big data cloud

 I got a demo account finally setup, so explored few cloud services.The Oracle Big data cloud service makes setting up bigdata very simple.Below are few screenshots.

 Big Data Appliance, Oracle provides you not only the hardware, but the software for your Big Data needs.BDCS, you have that same capability that you have with your Big Data Appliance, but taking advantage of cloud services.

Big data appliance, on premise
BDCC - > Orcale Bigdata cloud at customer (Oracle will do it , but on premise)
BDCS - > Oracle Bigdata cloud service.


Here i am exploring BDCS. Software components of BDCS are,

Linux 8
Java 8
Cloudera enterprise datahub edition(5.x)
  - Cloudera distribution including Apache hadoop(CDH)
- Cloudera Impala
 - Hbase
 - Cloudera search
 - Apache spark
Oracle bigdata spacial and graph
Oracle R distribution

There are also connectors to integrate with relational database.Oracle Bigdata sql cloud service provides ability to write sql to connect to both Bigdata and relational database.It also has the ability of smart scan i.e data driven parallel processing.