Preface

This guide describes how to manage and use the installed Oracle Big Data Appliance software.

Note:

Oracle Big Data SQL is no longer documented within this guide. See the Oracle Big Data Appliance User's Guide for instructions on how to install and use Oracle Big Data SQL.

Audience

This guide is intended for users of Oracle Big Data Appliance including:

  • Application developers

  • Data analysts

  • Data scientists

  • Database administrators

  • System administrators

The Oracle Big Data Appliance Software User's Guide introduces Oracle Big Data Appliance installed software, features, concepts, and terminology. However, you must acquire the necessary information about administering Hadoop clusters and writing MapReduce programs from other sources.

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents:

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention Meaning

boldface

Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.

italic

Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.

monospace

Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

# prompt

The pound (#) prompt indicates a command that is run as the Linux root user.

Backus-Naur Form Syntax

The syntax in this reference is presented in a simple variation of Backus-Naur Form (BNF) that uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Description

[ ]

Brackets enclose optional items.

{ }

Braces enclose a choice of items, only one of which is required.

|

A vertical bar separates alternatives within brackets or braces.

...

Ellipses indicate that the preceding syntactic element can be repeated.

delimiters

Delimiters other than brackets, braces, and vertical bars must be entered as shown.

boldface

Words appearing in boldface are keywords. They must be typed as shown. (Keywords are case-sensitive in some, but not all, operating systems.) Words that are not in boldface are placeholders for which you must substitute a name or value.

Changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4.11

Oracle Big Data Appliance is primarily a maintenance release that includes the following software version updates:

Updated Software

  • Cloudera Enterprise 5.13.1

  • Oracle NoSQL Database Enterprise Edition 4.5.12

  • ODI Agent 12.2.1.3.0

  • Oracle Linux 6 and UEK updates. UEK4 updated to UEK4QU5

Note:

Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.11 supports Oracle Linux 6 only, for both installations and upgrades. Oracle Linux 5 is not supported in this release and will not be supported in future releases.

Other Software

Revision levels for software other than the Cloudera and Oracle packages listed above remain the same as in Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.10:

  • Oracle Big Data Connectors 4.10

    In previous releases, Oracle Big Data Connectors and Oracle Big Data Appliance have been at the same release level. Note that in Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.11, Oracle Big Data Connectors has not been upgraded and remains at Release 4.10.

  • Big Data SQL 3.2

  • Oracle Big Data Spatial & Graph 2.4

  • MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.7.19

  • Perfect Balance 2.10.0

  • Java JDK 8u141

  • Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop (ORAAH) 2.7.0 

  • Oracle's R Distribution (ORD) 3.2.0

  • Oracle NoSQL Community Edition 4.4.6

Change Notices

  • Perfect Balance deprecated

    The Perfect Balance feature is deprecated in this release of Oracle Big Data Appliance and may be de-supported in a future release.

  • Patch 27077322 is NOT required for Big Data SQL 3.2

    The previous Oracle Big Data Appliance release (4.10) requires Patch 27077322 in order to install Oracle Big Data SQL 3.2. This patch is not needed for the installation of Oracle Big Data SQL 3.2 on Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.11