Fast Data: Go Big. Go Fast.
- by J Swaroop
Cross-posting Dain Hansen's excellent recap of the Big Data/Fast Data announcement during OOW:
For those of you who may have missed it, today’s second full day
of Oracle OpenWorld 2012 started with a rumpus. Joe Tucci, from EMC outlined the
human face of big data with
real examples of how big data is transforming our world. And no not the usual tried-and-true
weblog examples, but real stories about taxi cab drivers in Singapore using big
data to better optimize their routes as well as folks just trying to get a
better hair cut. Next we heard from Thomas Kurian who talked at length about
the important platform characteristics of Oracle’s Cloud and more specifically Oracle’s expanded Cloud
Services portfolio. Especially interesting to our integration customers are
the messaging support for Oracle’s Cloud applications. What this means is that
now Oracle’s Cloud applications have a lightweight integration fabric that on-premise
applications can communicate to it via REST-APIs using Oracle SOA Suite. It’s
an important element to our strategy at Oracle that supports this idea that
whether your requirements are for private or public, Oracle has a solution in
the Cloud for all of your applications and we give you more deployment choice than any vendor.
If this wasn’t enough to get the juices flowing, later that
morning we heard from Hasan Rizvi who outlined in his Fusion Middleware session
the four most important enterprise imperatives: Social, Mobile, Cloud, and a
brand new one: Fast Data. Today, Rizvi made an important step in the definition
of this term to explain that he believes it’s a convergence of four essential
technology elements:
Event Processing for event filtering, business rules –
with Oracle Event Processing
Data Transformation and Loading - with Oracle Data Integrator
Real-time replication and integration –
with Oracle GoldenGate
Analytics and data discovery – with Oracle Business
Intelligence
Each of these four elements can be considered (and architect-ed) together on a
single integrated platform that can help customers integrate any type of data (structured,
semi-structured) leveraging new styles of big data technologies (MapReduce,
HDFS, Hive, NoSQL) to process more volume and variety of data at a faster
velocity with greater results.
Fast data processing (and especially real-time) has always been
our credo at Oracle with each one of these products in Fusion Middleware. For
example, Oracle GoldenGate continues to be made even faster with the recent 11g
R2 Release of Oracle GoldenGate which gives us some even greater
optimization to Oracle Database with Integrated Capture, as well as some new
heterogeneity capabilities. With Oracle Data Integrator with
Big Data Connectors, we’re seeing much improved performance by running
MapReduce transformations natively on Hadoop systems. And with Oracle
Event Processing we’re seeing some remarkable performance with customers
like NTT Docomo. Check out their upcoming session at Oracle
OpenWorld on Wednesday to hear more how this customer is using Event processing
and Big Data together. If you missed any of these sessions and keynotes, not to worry. There's on-demand versions available on the Oracle OpenWorld website. You can also checkout our upcoming webcast where we will outline some of these new breakthroughs in Data Integration technologies for Big Data, Cloud, and Real-time in more details.
