Oracle Free Cloud Trial – Part 4: Zeppelin Notebooks

This is Part 4 of my series of four blog articles about trying the Oracle Cloud using the 30 day / $300 Free Trial offer.  In this article, it is assumed that an Oracle Big Data Cloud Service has already been provisioned as described in Part 3 of this blog series. When the Oracle Big …

Oracle Free Cloud Trial – Part 3: Hadoop

This is Part 3 of my series of four blog articles recording my experiences trying out the Oracle Cloud using the 30 day / $300 Free Trial offer.  In this blog-post I cover provisioning a pre-configured Hadoop service in the Oracle Cloud. Oracle provide several Big-Data-in-the-Cloud service offerings including: Big Data (enterprise Big Data based …

Connecting R Studio to Hadoop via Hive

This is a step-by-step guide to connecting an R Studio client session running on a PC to a remote Hive server running on Hadoop. Although Hive is getting a bit long in the tooth and is falling out of fashion, this is a very easy way to publish data from a Hadoop cluster to end-user …

Getting Started with the Oracle Hadoop VM

Introduction This is a basic step-by-step guide for getting a fully functional Apache Hadoop distribution running on a Windows laptop.  Windows is assumed, but the general approach will work on Mac and Linux - you just need to set up Virtual-Box for your PC OS type and the rest of the instructions are the same. The …