Oracle Data Miner and Oracle Advanced Analytics

Oracle Data Miner is the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Oracle Data Mining, the data mining engine in Oracle Database.

Oracle Data Mining is a component of the Oracle Advanced Analytics option of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.

Components of Oracle Advanced Analytics:

• Oracle Data Mining (required by Oracle Data Miner)

  Oracle Data Mining is a powerful data mining engine embedded in the Database kernel. Oracle Data Mining supports algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, feature selection, feature extraction, and association (market basket analysis). The Data Mining PL/SQL Application Programming Interface (API) performs data preparation and creates, evaluates, and maintains mining models. Data Mining SQL functions score data using mining models or predictive queries.

• Oracle R Enterprise (not required by Oracle Data Miner)

  Oracle Data Miner provides limited support for Oracle R Enterprise. If a user supplies a script that includes embedded R in the Oracle Data Miner SQL Query node, then Oracle Data Miner uses Oracle R Enterprise to execute the script.

  Oracle R Enterprise integrates the open source R statistical programming language and environment with Oracle Database. Oracle R Enterprise supports a transparency layer, which allows R to act transparently on Oracle data, and embedded R execution, which allows the execution of R scripts in the database.