Oracle Big Data Appliance is an engineered system optimized for acquiring, organizing, and analyzing big data. It combines optimized hardware components with new software solutions to deliver a complete big data solution.
This chapter describes the licensing and technical support of software installed on Oracle Big Data Appliance. It contains these topics:
Oracle Big Data Appliance software is installed in two stages:
The Oracle Linux operating system and various configuration utilities are factory-installed on Oracle Big Data Appliance servers. Your license to use them is included with your purchase of the appliance.
An Oracle Customer Service Representative downloads all applications software for Oracle Big Data Appliance. Some of this software is included in the Oracle Big Data Appliance licensing agreement, while other software is licensed separately.
You must specify whether to install separately licensed and optional software components when completing the Oracle Big Data Appliance Configuration Generation Utility.
The software downloaded to Oracle Big Data Appliance is protected by these licenses:
The following table summarizes the licensing and support of integrated software included with your purchase of Oracle Big Data Appliance. The licenses are only for use of the software on Oracle Big Data Appliance. You cannot move or copy the software to another system.
| Software | License | Support |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Linux | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Java HotSpot Virtual Machine | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Cloudera BDR | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Cloudera Impala | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Cloudera Manager | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Cloudera Navigator | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Cloudera RTD | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Cloudera Search | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Apache Spark | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| MySQL Database Standard Edition | Restricted useFoot 1 | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Oracle NoSQL Database Community Edition | GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3) | NoneFootref 1
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| Oracle R Distribution | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
| Perfect BalanceFoot 2 | Perpetual for life of hardware | Oracle Premier Support for Systems or Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems |
Footnote 1 See the Oracle Software License Agreement ("SLA") and Entitlement for Hardware Systems with Integrated Software Options
Footnote 2 Oracle software for Oracle Big Data Appliance
The licensing for Oracle Big Data Connectors is separate from Oracle Big Data Appliance. You can install Oracle Big Data Connectors on a Hadoop cluster configured on either Oracle Big Data Appliance or commodity hardware.
When you purchase a license for Oracle Big Data Connectors, that license includes all of the following components:
Oracle Loader for Hadoop
Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop
Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop
Oracle SQL Connector for Hadoop Distributed File System
Oracle XQuery for Hadoop
Oracle Big Data Connectors must be licensed for all processors of a Hadoop cluster. When Oracle Big Data Connectors is installed on a single Hadoop cluster, it must be licensed on all processors. When Oracle Big Data Connectors is installed on multiple Hadoop clusters, it must be licensed on all processors of the clusters where the connectors are used.
For example, you might configure Oracle Big Data Appliance with three, six-node Hadoop clusters:
Cluster 1 uses the Oracle SQL Connector for HDFS component of Oracle Big Data Connectors.
Cluster 2 uses the Oracle XQuery for Hadoop component of Oracle Big Data Connectors.
Cluster 3 does not use any component of Oracle Big Data Connector .
For this configuration, you must license Oracle Big Data Connectors for the processors on 12 nodes (clusters 1 and 2).
The individual components are available only as part of the Oracle Big Data Connectors license. The components are not licensed individually.
Restricted Use License: This restricted use license enables you to use Oracle Data Integrator to load data from any source into Oracle Big Data Appliance and to transform the data on Oracle Big Data Appliance. Any use outside of Oracle Big Data Appliance requires a full license for Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition.
This software requires a separate license:
Oracle NoSQL Database Enterprise Edition
Modifications to the software installed on Oracle Big Data Appliance can result in a loss of warranty and support.
See the Oracle Big Data Appliance Owner's Guide for specific restrictions.