After Hadoop finishes filtering the data, the place you want to put that data is in Oracle database.
However, another user was more keen on the idea of an NT-free server environment running an Oracle database.
The company's first product was called the Oracle database and outperformed IBM.
The Oracle Public Cloud will include Oracle Fusion CRM, Oracle Java Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network and other services.
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Suffice it to say that along with Oracle database software, we'll need cheap, massively parallel machines as servers for these huge online databases.
Yes, but for now MicroStrategy's tools (which can run on an Oracle database) allow more detailed analysis of big databases (see box, p. 68).
Mobil hired IBM to do the data processing, shutting off Microsoft databases in favor of Oracle database software running on a shared IBM Z900 mainframe.
We started relational, then objects, then text, then XML, now a lot of different types of unstructured data types all going into the Oracle database.
Oracle recently announced the Oracle Public Cloud, which combines Oracle Fusion CRM, Oracle Java Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network and other services.
Korea Telecom replaced an Oracle database with Hadoop after a five-year project to support 17 million telephone subscribers, 7.2 broadband subscribes and 15 million mobile users.
Shippers enter their product and destination data on the Open Harbor interface, which then cross-references the information against an 8-million-line Oracle database, updated daily, of export rules, documents and taxes for 64 countries.
For all its success, for instance, Oracle Japan sells its databases through other Japanese software houses, which continue to charge for their services (now packaged with an Oracle database) on a fixed-price basis.
An example of an application that does not work well in a simple cloud environment is a shared database, such as the typical Oracle database application, where the information is one big block of data that needs to be manipulated all the time by many computing processes and where access to the shared data needs to be synchronized and managed.
Oracle has cut costs, refocused its energies and, earlier this year, replaced its worn-out flagship product, the Oracle 6 database, with an industry-hailed Oracle's culture, like Ellison himself, has transformed itself: It now focuses on developing long-term partnerships with customers rather than attaining market share at any cost.
The new Oracle 12C database has a new architecture that speaks to cloud computing needs.
It also announced its move into Big Data with its new Big Data appliance and the launch of its new Oracle NoSQL database.
Oracle first announced support for big data with its new Big Data Appliance and Oracle NoSQL database at the Open World conference, and was followed by Microsoft which announced Hadoop support for SQL Server 2012.
However, if the new Oracle 8i database would run on a non-NT machine that allowed users to connect to the database using the proprietary interface they are used to, it would be very interesting to MDS, he said.
In his most straightforward comment to date on the power that comes from optimizing hardware and software from the ground up, Ballmer sounds a lot like Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who launched the the engineered-system concept about four years ago with the first version of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
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Oracle, the database-software behemoth, is buying Sun Microsystems, which sells big computers as well as software ranging from Java tools to open-source databases.
OracleMobile.com and Strategy.com, respectively subsidiaries of Oracle, a database supplier and MicroStrategy, a data-warehousing firm, allow users to select information they want to receive on their wireless devices from corporate websites.
He leads fellow Oracle alumni at Ingres, a database maker that aims to undercut Oracle with lower prices and better service.
Last June, Dell and Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) announced that Dell would resell licenses for Oracle's 9i database and Linux clustering technology.
By incorporating software that allows traditional files to be stored and managed by the database, Oracle 8i also removes the need for a big, all-purpose operating system, such as Windows 2000.
For larger warehouses the competition comes from Oracle's 9i database and IBM's DB2, and these have the advantage of running on machines from IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard that are familiar to big businesses.
Besides the new server, Morohoshi says Fujitsu Computer's strategy is to partner with consultants like EDS (nyse: EDS - news - people ), storage companies like EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ) and software companies like Microsoft, Red Hat and database giant Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ).
Large database companies such as Oracle will benefit as well since this network will be used to provide database access to personnel in the field.
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Microsoft saw the Raw Iron announcement as an attempt by Oracle to offer another competitive database to Microsoft's SQL Server.
With the newest addition to its engineered-systems family, the Exadata X3 Database Machine, Oracle is giving customers more justification to realize they need to move beyond the traditional and non-optimized systems of the past.
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