Oracle makes 'big data' push even bigger

September 23, 2013

Oracle is doubling down on "big data" with a number of new products and enhancements to existing ones, in hopes that customers looking to analyze massive amounts of information for business insights will in turn invest further in Oracle. For one thing, Oracle's Big Data Appliance (shown above) now features "enterprise-class" security for Hadoop, the open-source data processing framework, Oracle announced Monday during the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Specifically, Big Data Appliance has been integrated with Kerberos and LDAP authentication, as well as Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall, according to the announcement. The software add-ons can peer into Hadoop audit trails, looking for suspicious activities and alerting administrators, as well as generate reports when desired. Oracle has also released additional features for Hadoop, including a new connector that "enables standard XQuery operations to process and transform XML documents, executing in parallel across the Hadoop cluster," according to Monday's announcement. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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