9 Connect to Oracle Database

This section describes how to connect to Oracle Database from Big Data Cloud using the Oracle Loader for Hadoop and Copy to Hadoop database connectors. These connectors are preinstalled and preconfigured on all cluster nodes in Oracle Big Data Cloud.

Oracle Loader for Hadoop and Copy to Hadoop are high speed connectors used to load data into and copy data from Oracle Database. The interface for these connectors is the Oracle Shell for Hadoop Loaders (OHSH) command line interface.