1 Getting a Big Data Discovery Cloud Service Subscription

To subscribe to the service, check these prerequisites and contact your Oracle sales representative to obtain a subscription and activate it. Next, create a service instance, and log into Studio to explore and analyze data.

• About Big Data Discovery Cloud Service
  Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud service (BDDCS) is a single-tenant Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering in Oracle Public Cloud (OPC).
• Before you begin with your subscription
  Before you create your first Big Data Discovery Cloud Service instance, you should have an Oracle Cloud Services account, a subscription to Oracle Big Data Cloud Service (BDCS), to Oracle Storage Cloud Service, and to VPN.
• Interfaces to the service
  Use the Service console for administration tasks; Studio for exploring, transforming, and discovering data; Data Processing CLI for loading and updating data; SSH terminal for accessing the Big Data Discovery Cloud Service node in the Big Data Cloud Service cluster.
• What's new in the service?
  This topic describes the new features in the Big Data Discovery Cloud Service.
• Relationship between the service and Big Data Discovery
  Big Data Discovery Cloud Service (BDDCS) is an implementation of Big Data Discovery in the Oracle Cloud, whereas Big Data Discovery (BDD) is an on-premise implementation.
• About users and roles
  Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service depends on several underlying services in Oracle Public Cloud and supports the following service users and roles: opc user in Big Data Cloud Service (BDCS), bdd user in Big Data Discovery Cloud Service (BDDCS), and Studio admin user. You also need user access to VPN, Oracle Cloud Storage, and Hadoop Cloudera Manager.
• Enabling VPN access to the service
  To ensure secure access to the service instance by your end users, you must establish an IPSec VPN connection between the Oracle Cloud to the service instance host. The VPN provisioning process is a collaborative effort between Oracle Public Cloud network engineers and your corporate network administrators.
• Requesting and activating a subscription
  To request a subscription to Big Data Discovery Cloud Service, contact your Oracle sales representative and provide the name and email of an account administrator for your service.
• Logging into the service console for the first time
  After you receive a "Welcome" email about a BDDCS instance enabled for you, log into the Service Console URL to provision your instance.
• Creating a service instance
  To create a Big Data Discovery Cloud Service instance, use the three steps in the Create Instance wizard: select a cluster for hosting the instance, provide configuration details and user credentials for all required underlying services, and confirm your instance configuration.
• Replacing SSL certificates
  Your BDDCS instance is provisioned in the Oracle Cloud with SSL enabled in WebLogic Server by default. Enabling SSL for BDDCS activates WebLogic Server's default Demo Identity and Demo Trust Keystores. As their names suggest, these keystores are untrusted and meant for demo purposes only. After creating a BDDCS instance and running the provisioning wizard, you should replace them with your own certificates.
• Verifying the service instance
  To verify all BDDCS components are running successfully, log into Studio and add a data set by uploading a CSV file. Observe it in the Studio's Catalog and Explore pages.
• Accessing documentation for the service
  Find BDDCS documentation in the Oracle Help Center, under the Cloud tile. Use BDDCS Getting Started Guide (this document) to learn how to provision and use BDDCS.