Before You Begin with Oracle Big Data Cloud Service
Before you begin using Oracle Big Data Cloud Service, you should be familiar with the following:
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Oracle Cloud
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Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH)
CDH provides the software infrastructure for working with big data. See the Cloudera documentation for the Cloudera release supported by this release of Oracle Big Data Cloud Service. (See What's New for Oracle Big Data Cloud Service to find the release numbers.)
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic (optional)
See About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic.
Before you create your first Oracle Big Data Cloud Service cluster:
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Obtain an entitlement to Oracle Big Data Cloud Service. See How to Begin with Oracle Big Data Cloud Service.
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Optionally, create a Secure Shell (SSH) public/private key pair so you can provide the public key when you create the cluster. See Generating a Secure Shell (SSH) Public/Private Key Pair. Alternatively, you can create a new key pair from the wizard when creating the cluster.
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Optionally, have access to and credentials for an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic instance. See Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic Get Started.
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Optionally, have an entitlement to Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service. (You must also have an entitlement to Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service in order to use. Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service.)