Oracle Big Data Appliance

Oracle Big Data Appliance is an engineered system that combines optimized hardware with a comprehensive big data software stack to deliver a complete, easy-to-deploy solution for acquiring and organizing big data. Oracle Big Data Appliance comes in a full rack configuration with 18 Sun servers for a total storage capacity of 648TB. Every server in the rack has 2 CPUs, each with 8 cores for a total of 288 cores per full rack. Each server has 64GB memory for a total of 1152GB of memory per full rack.

 High-level overview of software on big data appliance

Oracle Big Data Appliance includes a combination of open source software and specialized
Software developed by Oracle to address enterprise big data requirements. 

The Oracle Big Data Appliance software includes:
  • Full distribution of Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH4)
  • Oracle Big Data Appliance Plug-In for Enterprise Manager
  • Cloudera Manager to administer all aspects of Cloudera CDH
  • Oracle distribution of the statistical package R
  • Oracle NoSQL Database Community Edition2 
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