Hadoop and Oracle Hook Up Through Cloudera and Quest Software
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Cloudera is working with Quest Software to provide a connector into Oracle for Hadoop, the open-source, distrbuted data management platform.
The connector, called "Ora-Oop," provides a way to transfer data between Oracle and Hadoop. The service will be available in the fourth quarter for download through Cloudera and Quest.
Quest is a tools provider for Oracle while Cloudera is known as the leading commercial Hadoop provider.
Hadoop is increasingly used by companies to keep data efficiently managed over an extended, distributed environment. It is known for its robust analytics. Yahoo! uses Hadoop to manage much of its infrastructure, optimize content and place advertisements. Facebook and many of the largest technology companies use Hadoop to manage the vast amounts of data in in its networks.
The enterprise faces its own issues as the social Web is making it vital for companies to deal with its information such as blogs, video and other media such as audio and images. This data is not easily fitted into a relational database. That's where Hadoop comes into the picture. By allowing for the bi-directional transfer of information, users can transfer the data between Hadoop and Oracle.
Ora-Oop will complement Sqoop, an open source tool designed to import data from relational databases into Hadoop.
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