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 […]

The Real Deal About Big Data

Being in the field for quite some time now and meeting different customers and technology people across the globe have brought to me several conclusions when it comes to how they observe the trend of “big data”. Some see it as “the future”, others think it’s some sort of “rocket science” while the rest are […]

Big Data in Action: ODI and Twitter

While almost everyone talks about it, I thought of actually doing it. When we talk, present and educate people about Big Data, we tend to mention “Twitter” as a great example, we also get into the steps taken to deal with Big Data using Oracle’s Big Data 3-Phase Design: That’s awesome, I mean the theoretical […]