Preface

This guide shows you how to install and configure Oracle Big Data SQL.

Audience

This guide is intended for administrators and users of Oracle Big Data SQL, including:

• Application developers

• Data analysts

• Data scientists

• Database administrators

• System administrators

The guide assumes that the reader has basic knowledge of Oracle Database single-node and multinode systems, the Hadoop framework, the Linux operating system, and networking concepts.

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Related Documents

See the Oracle Big Data SQL User’s Guide for instructions on using this product after installation.

The following are Oracle products that are often used along with Oracle Big Data SQL:

• Oracle Big Data Appliance
• Oracle Big Data Connectors
• Oracle SQL Developer

You can find more information about Oracle’s Big Data solutions and Oracle Database at the Oracle Help Center

For more information on Hortonworks HDP and Ambari, refer to the Hortonworks documentation site at http://docs.hortonworks.com/index.html.

For more information on Cloudera CDH and Configuration Manager, see http://www.cloudera.com/documentation.html

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 SQL 4.1.1

See Changes in This Release in the Oracle Big Data SQL User's Guide to learn what's new in Release 4.1.1 and for the previous two releases.