Before You Begin with Big Data Cloud

Before you start using Oracle Big Data Cloud, you should be familiar with the following technologies:

  • The Apache Hadoop ecosystem

  • Apache Spark

  • OpenStack Swift Object Storage

Before you create a cluster:

  • Subscribe to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic, the persistent data lake for Big Data Cloud

  • Subscribe to Oracle Big Data Cloud

  • (Optional) Create an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic container for your data

  • (Optional) Create a Secure Shell (SSH) public/private key pair to provide when you create a cluster