Big data’s potential has been widely exclaimed. But many organizations are challenged by the need to collect, store, and analyze the ever-growing amounts and varieties of data that constitute big data.
Big data reservoirs—large holding areas where all kinds of data can be stored and analyzed—are a logical first step in building a next-generation information architecture. In the world of big data, we don’t often know what the value of the data will be. A big data reservoir allows for ad hoc discovery, organization, and enrichment of this data before it traverses to more refined sets of analytics tools.
Because the data volumes are large and the variety of data types unpredictable, big data reservoirs have to be cost-effective and flexible. Not surprisingly, Hadoop and NoSQL databases are the preferred choices for creating big data reservoirs.
But moving data from a big data reservoir into actionable systems requires complex manipulation, comparison, and real-time updates to keep data accurate and systems in synch.Oracle Data Integratorfulfills the critical need of performing complex data manipulations and moving data in and out of big data reservoirs. The latest release, Oracle Data Integrator 12.1.3, is replete withnew featuresdesigned specifically for the challenges of handling big data. AndOracle GoldenGateworks in perfect harmony with Oracle Data Integrator to keep data reservoirs updated with the latest real-time information.
Oracle Data Integrator also delivers leading capabilities for dealing with yet another big data challenge: heterogeneous data. Big data comes in many different forms, from transactional data to social media logs and more, and Oracle Data Integrator can handle all of it. Oracle Data Integrator is the standard for extract, load, and transform operations for Oracle Applications. And it now supports data loading from relational databases into Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Hive, and HBase environments, and from HDFS and Hive into relational databases. In addition, Oracle Data Integrator now supports JavaScript Object Notation and can use Sqoop to integrate Hadoop from non-Hadoop or relational data.
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