What's New in Oracle Big Data Connectors?

This chapter briefly describes the new features in this release of Oracle Big Data Connectors and provides links to more information.

Changes in Release 1.1

Release 1.1 of Oracle Big Data Connectors includes many new and modified functions in Oracle R Connector for Hadoop.

Name Changes

The R package name changed from ORHC to ORCH. All functions with names beginning with orhc are renamed to begin with orch.

The orhc.which function is now named orch.dbcon.

New Functions

The following functions are new in Release 1.1:

• hdfs.describe

• hdfs.id

• hdfs.mv

• hdfs.root

• hdfs.setroot

• is.hdfs.id

• orch.dbcon

• orch.dbg.on

• orch.dbg.output

• orch.dbinfo

• orch.dryrun

• orch.export

• orch.keyval

• orch.keyvals

• orch.pack

• orch.unpack

• orch.version

Modified Functions

The following functions have modified syntax in release 1.1:

• hadoop.exec

• hadoop.run

• hdfs.attach

• hdfs.put

• hdfs.rm

• hdfs.rmdir

• hdfs.size

• orch.disconnect

Desupported Functions

These functions are desupported in Release 1.1:

• orch.which: Use orch.dbcon to obtain a connection object.

Deprecated Functions

These functions are deprecated in release 1.1 and will be desupported in release 2.0:

• keyval: use orch.keyval to generate key-value pairs.

• orch.reconnect: Use orch.connect to reconnect using a connection object returned by orch.dbcon.