This is the second part of our three-part blog post series (see the first part here), which deals with incremental data updates. In our scenario we assume that we acquire small batches of data updates using some kind of web scraping mechanism. We will not deal with the details of that mechanism, as it is beyond the scope of this …
Graph analysis of Stack Overflow tags with Oracle PGX – Part 1: Data Engineering
Intoduction Oracle Parallel Graph Analytics (PGX) is a toolkit for graph analysis, both for running algorithms such as PageRank and for performing SQL-like pattern-matching against graphs. Extreme performance is offered through algorithm parallelization, and graphs can be loaded from a variety of sources such as flat files, SQL and NoSQL databases etc. So, in order to get a deeper feeling, …
Enabling the Green-Marl compiler for Parallel Graph Analytics in Oracle Big Data Lite VM
Recently, I began working with Parallel Graph Analytics (PGX) on my Oracle Big Data Lite (BDL) VM version 4.7.0.1. I was especially intrigued and curious about the capabilities of a PGX component called Green-Marl (GM), a domain-specific language specially designed for graph data analysis. It was stated to extend PGX’s capabilities and “implement algorithms with no limit”. Especially the last argument …
Streaming data from Raspberry Pi to Oracle NoSQL via Node-RED
Starting from version 4.2, Oracle NoSQL now offers drivers for Node.js and Python, in addition to the existing ones for Java, C, and C++; this is good news for data science people, like myself, since we are normally not accustomed to code in Java or C/C++. So, I thought to build a short demo project, putting into test both the …
Installing the additional R packages in Oracle Big Data Lite VM 4.5.0
Oracle has just released version 4.5.0 of the Big Data Lite VM which, when it comes to R, still suffers from the issues we had pinpointed for the previous version 4.4.0 (and then some). The first attempt to install the additional packages fails with a ‘cannot open URL’ error: Fortunately, the warning about the proxy helps to locate the issue, …
Bulk load data to HBase in Oracle Big Data Appliance
I ran into an issue recently, while trying to bulk load some data to HBase in Oracle Big Data Appliance. Following is a reproducible description and solution using the current version of Oracle Big Data Lite VM (4.4.0). Enabling HBase in Oracle Big Data Lite VM (Feel free to skip this section if you do not use Oracle Big Data …
Installing the additional R packages in Oracle Big Data Lite VM 4.4.0
In the just-released version 4.4.0 of Oracle Big Data Lite VM, as in the previous one (4.3.0.1), there is a rather large number of additional R packages to be installed by the provided script install_additional_packages.sh, i.e. 28 packages without counting their dependencies (the respective number in version 4.2.1 was only 10). Unfortunately, what has also changed is the form of …
Querying Big Data SQL tables with Oracle R Enterprise
I was wondering recently if I could use Oracle R Enterprise (ORE) to query Big Data SQL tables (i.e. Oracle Database external tables based on HDFS or Hive data), since I have never seen such a combination mentioned in the relevant Oracle documentation and white papers. I am happy to announce that the answer is an unconditional yes. In this …
Oracle R Enterprise 1.4: ore.make.names does not work for Oracle DB connections
I have reported in the past about some unexpected behavior issues of Oracle R Enterprise 1.4 ore.make.names function; nevertheless, back then I had only tried it with Hive connections. I tried to use it today with an Oracle database connection, and it doesn’t seem to work. Here is a reproducible example in Oracle Big Data Lite VM 4.2.1, using the …
Manipulating Hive tables with Oracle R connectors for Hadoop
In this post, we’ll have a look at how easy it is to manipulate Hive tables using Oracle R connectors for Hadoop (ORCH, presently known as Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop – ORAAH). We will use the weblog data from Athens Datathon 2015, which we have already loaded in a Hive table named weblogs, as described in more detail …
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