Oracle Data Integrator & MapR Converged Data Platform: CHECK!

MapR has their own Hadoop-derived software, a distribution that claims “to provide full data protection, no single points of failure, improved performance, and dramatic ease of use advantages”. For instance, MapR doesn’t rely on regular HDFS we’re all used to, but came up with MapR-FS, which works differently and provides substantial advantages over regular HDFS, […]

MapR-FS Real-Time Transactional Data Ingestion using Oracle GoldenGate

“MapR-FS is a POSIX file system that provides distributed, reliable, high performance, scalable, and full read/write data storage for the MapR Converged Data Platform. MapR-FS supports the HDFS API, fast NFS access, access controls (MapR ACEs), and transparent data compression. MapR-FS includes enterprise-grade features such as block-level mirroring for mission-critical disaster recovery as well as load balancing, […]

Moving Data Across Hadoop Clusters using Oracle Data Integrator

Today I came across this request: “We need to copy our data efficiently between two Hadoop clusters, via ODI. Can we?”. When it comes to ODI, I cannot think of a case where I ever said no, thanks to its modular architecture, flexibility and extensibility. While there is no “official” KM yet shipped with ODI […]

Streaming Transactional Data into MapR Streams using Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data

“Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data 12c product streams transactional data into big data systems in real-time, without impacting the performance of source systems. It streamlines real-time data delivery into most popular big data solutions, including Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, Apache Hive, Apache Flume and Apache Kafka to facilitate improved insight and timely action.” MapR Streams […]

Oracle Metadata Management – Business Glossary

Business glossary, in a simplified explanation, is a software application used to communicate and govern the organization’s business concepts and terminology along with the associated definitions and relationships between those terms. Business glossary helps in understanding business concepts and terminology of the organization and minimizes the misuse of data due to wrong understanding of the business concepts and […]