Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Introducing Oracle Big Data Appliance

• 1.1 What Is Big Data?
  • 1.1.1 High Variety
  • 1.1.2 High Complexity
  • 1.1.3 High Volume
  • 1.1.4 High Velocity
• 1.2 The Oracle Big Data Solution
• 1.3 Software for Big Data
  • 1.3.1 Software Component Overview
• 1.4 Acquiring Data for Analysis
  • 1.4.1 Hadoop Distributed File System
  • 1.4.2 Oracle NoSQL Database
  • 1.4.3 Hive
• 1.5 Organizing Big Data
  • 1.5.1 MapReduce
  • 1.5.2 Oracle R Support for Big Data
  • 1.5.3 Oracle Big Data Connectors
    • 1.5.3.1 Oracle Direct Connector for Hadoop Distributed File System
    • 1.5.3.2 Oracle Loader for Hadoop
    • 1.5.3.3 Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop
    • 1.5.3.4 Oracle R Connector for Hadoop
• 1.6 Analyzing and Visualizing Big Data

2 Administering Oracle Big Data Appliance

• 2.1 Managing CDH Operations
  • 2.1.1 Monitoring the Status of Oracle Big Data Appliance
  • 2.1.2 Performing Administrative Tasks
  • 2.1.3 Collecting Diagnostic Information
• 2.2 Using Hadoop Monitoring Utilities
  • 2.2.1 Monitoring the JobTracker
  • 2.2.2 Monitoring the TaskTracker
• 2.3 Providing Remote Client Access to CDH
  • 2.3.1 Installing CDH on the Client System
  • 2.3.2 Configuring CDH
• 2.4 Managing User Accounts
• 2.5 Recovering Deleted Files
  • 2.5.1 Restoring Files from the Trash
  • 2.5.2 Setting Up the Trash Facility
  • 2.5.3 Changing the Trash Interval
• 2.6 Software Layout
  • 2.6.1 Software Components
  • 2.6.2 Logical Disk Layout
• 2.7 Software Services
  • 2.7.1 Monitoring the Services
  • 2.7.2 About the Parent Services
  • 2.7.3 About the Child Services
  • 2.7.4 Where Do the Services Run?
    • 2.7.4.1 Service Locations
    • 2.7.4.2 NameNode
    • 2.7.4.3 Unconfigured Software
• 2.8 Effects of Hardware on Software Availability
  • 2.8.1 Critical and Noncritical Nodes
  • 2.8.2 HDFS Node
  • 2.8.3 Cloudera Manager Node
  • 2.8.4 JobTracker Node
  • 2.8.5 Backup Node
  • 2.8.6 Noncritical Nodes
• 2.9 Security on Oracle Big Data Appliance
  • 2.9.1 CDH Security
  • 2.9.2 Port Numbers Used on Oracle Big Data Appliance
  • 2.9.3 About Puppet Security

Glossary

Index