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 SQL Connector for Hadoop Distributed File System
    • 1.5.3.2 Oracle Loader for Hadoop
    • 1.5.3.3 Oracle R Connector for Hadoop
    • 1.5.3.4 Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop
• 1.6 Analyzing and Visualizing Big Data

2 Administering Oracle Big Data Appliance

• 2.1 Monitoring a Cluster Using Oracle Enterprise Manager
• 2.2 Managing CDH Operations Using Cloudera Manager
  • 2.2.1 Monitoring the Status of Oracle Big Data Appliance
  • 2.2.2 Performing Administrative Tasks
  • 2.2.3 Managing Services With Cloudera Manager
• 2.3 Using Hadoop Monitoring Utilities
  • 2.3.1 Monitoring the JobTracker
  • 2.3.2 Monitoring the TaskTracker
• 2.4 Using Hue to Interact With Hadoop
• 2.5 About the Oracle Big Data Appliance Software
  • 2.5.1 Software Components
  • 2.5.2 Logical Disk Layout
• 2.6 About the Software Services
  • 2.6.1 Monitoring the CDH Services
  • 2.6.2 Where Do the Services Run?
  • 2.6.3 Automatic Failover of the NameNode
  • 2.6.4 Unconfigured Software
• 2.7 Configuring HBase
• 2.8 Effects of Hardware on Software Availability
  • 2.8.1 Critical and Noncritical Nodes
  • 2.8.2 First NameNode
  • 2.8.3 Second NameNode
  • 2.8.4 JobTracker Node
  • 2.8.5 Noncritical Nodes
• 2.9 Collecting Diagnostic Information for Oracle Customer Support
• 2.10 Security on Oracle Big Data Appliance
  • 2.10.1 About Predefined Users and Groups
  • 2.10.2 Port Numbers Used on Oracle Big Data Appliance
  • 2.10.3 About CDH Security Using Kerberos
  • 2.10.4 About Puppet Security

3 Supporting User Access to Oracle Big Data Appliance

• 3.1 Providing Remote Client Access to CDH
  • 3.1.1 Prerequisites
  • 3.1.2 Installing CDH on Oracle Exadata Database Machine
  • 3.1.3 Installing a CDH Client on Any Supported Operating System
  • 3.1.4 Configuring CDH
• 3.2 Managing User Accounts
  • 3.2.1 Providing User Login Privileges
  • 3.2.2 Creating New HDFS Users
• 3.3 Recovering Deleted Files
  • 3.3.1 Restoring Files from the Trash
  • 3.3.2 Changing the Trash Interval
  • 3.3.3 Disabling the Trash Facility
    • 3.3.3.1 Completely Disabling the Trash Facility
    • 3.3.3.2 Disabling the Trash Facility for Local HDFS Clients
    • 3.3.3.3 Disabling the Trash Facility for a Remote HDFS Client

4 Configuring Oracle Exadata Database Machine for Use with Oracle Big Data Appliance

• 4.1 About Optimizing Communications
• 4.2 Prerequisites
• 4.3 Enabling SDP on Exadata Database Nodes
• 4.4 Configuring a JDBC Client for SDP
• 4.5 Creating an SDP Listener on the InfiniBand Network

Glossary

Index