abstract:The Oracle Big Data Appliance consists of hardware and software from Oracle Corporation designed to integrate enterprise data, both structured and unstructured. It includes the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine (Oracle Exalogic), used for obtaining, consolidating and loading unstructured data into Oracle Database 11g.
Oracle first announced support for bigdata with its new BigDataAppliance and Oracle NoSQL database at the Open World conference, and was followed by Microsoft which announced Hadoop support for SQL Server 2012.