There has been speculation for a while now with the intention of Oracle might someday make its foray into the Hadoop and NoSQL spaces, and next week looks like with the intention of time.
With regard to Hadoop, CEO Larry Ellison made it apparent all owing to last week’s earnings invite with the intention of the companionship is working on a connector with the intention of will let customers load shapeless figures from Hadoop into their Oracle Exadata appliances. Now we have waterproof — and Oracle’s huge figures plans don’t stop with Hadoop.
Updated: I’ve seen some Oracle-bent content highlighting the companionship’s plans for a huge figures platform, apparently slated for launch in the second half of 2012, with the intention of not release includes the Hadoop connector — called Oracle Loader for Hadoop — but also a NoSQL database. The goal, it seems, is to let customers get your hands on figures from whatever sources they please and at that time feed it into an Oracle Exadata figures warehouse system. Once there, figures can be analyzed via number of earnings, counting existing Oracle technologies such as in-database MapReduce, mining and arithmetic analysis with R.
Reaffirming this in rank Thursday, Larry Dignan at ZDNet highlighted with the intention of the Oracle Loader for Hadoop is the theme of manifold sessions at next week’s Oracle OpenWorld discussion as is “Oracle NoSQL Database.”
What remains to be seen, though, is how heavy Oracle — which has enabled Hadoop integration for some time, really — will really invest in Hadoop and NoSQL now with the intention of it appears interested in productizing them. Will Oracle advertise a corporal Hadoop appliance, as Ellison alluded to and as competitor EMC is doing, or is the connector as far as it goes? Will Oracle support any Hadoop or NoSQL distributions, or will it make its own like it did with Linux?
With the intention of database top dog Oracle is getting into these markets is fantastic substantiation for the technologies — and certainly will please Oracle customers wanting formal support for Oracle-Hadoop-NoSQL environments — but how it decides to do business within these spaces could be even extra consequential. Oracle buying up a companionship or two would be a very huge deal to everyone else in these spaces, as it would in cooperation add and eliminate competition in one chop stroke. On the other hand, Oracle vacant too proprietary could limit its effectiveness in spaces dominated by commence source technologies with bounty of hype and investment to thrive on their own.