Oracle Big Data Appliance X4-2 at 864TB/Rack

Oracle Corp. announced its Big Data Appliance X4-2, which includes the entire Cloudera Enterprise technology stack and 33% more storage capacity for a total of 864TB per rack.

It is a big data platform optimized for both batch and real-time processing – utilizing Cloudera Distribution for Apache Hadoop, Oracle NoSQL Database, Cloudera Impala and Cloudera Search to satisfy diverse computing requirements.

With this release, coupled with the recent updates of NoSQL Database and Big Data Connectors, the company is bringing customers big data advancements and integrating these big data technologies with data warehouses. When Big Data Appliance is used in conjunction with Exadata Database Machine and Exalytics, Oracle provides a complete architecture to store, manage and analyze all forms of structured and unstructured data while minimizing data movement.

Demonstrating its commitment for enterprise-grade big data security, Oracle is also announcing it is a co-founder of the Apache Sentry project to deliver fine-grained authorization to data stored in Apache Hadoop. With the Big Data Appliance, Oracle now delivers a Hadoop security solution including Apache Sentry and LDAP-based authorization, pre-configured Kerberos authentication, centralized auditing with Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall.

Big Data Appliance brings customers significant cost savings compared to building an in-house Hadoop cluster – up to 39% (Getting Real About Big Data: Build Versus Buy, by Evan Quinn, senior principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group).

With the increased storage capacity and enhanced software capabilities of Big Data Appliance, customers can further reduce their TCO.

“Oracle Big Data Appliance X4-2 continues to raise the big data bar, offering the industry’s only comprehensive appliance for Hadoop to securely meet enterprise big data challenges,” said Cetin Ozbutun, SVP, data warehousing and big data technologies, Oracle. “Now that Oracle Big Data Appliance comes with the Entire Cloudera Enterprise Technology Stack and a significant increase in storage capacity, enterprises can build an even more cost-effective big data platform that can help generate new business value quickly and effectively.”

“Oracle’s addition of the Big Data Appliance X4-2 to its line of engineered systems is tremendous for customers,” said Mike Olson, Cloudera, Inc.‘s founder, CSO and COB.

“It bundles the full suite of Cloudera’s software on an affordable and easy-to-install system. With the unequalled connectivity between the Big Data Appliance and Oracle’s Exadata system, plus the rich collection of business software that Oracle offers for unlocking the value of multi-structured data, Cloudera and Oracle deliver an enterprise data hub that can store any kind of data in any volume, in full fidelity, securely. It provides the data governance capabilities that enterprise customers require and delivers real-time analytic and processing solutions right out of the box,” said Quinn.