Oracle secures Big Data platform

Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Advanced Analytics, a new option for Oracle Database 11g that bundles Oracle R Enterprise together with Oracle Data Mining. Oracle R Enterprise delivers enterprise-class performance for users of the R statistical programming language, increasing the scale of data that can be analyzed by orders of magnitude using Oracle Database 11g.

Customer testing of Oracle R Enterprise for Big Data analytics on Oracle Exadata has shown up to 100 x increases in performance in comparison to their current environment.  Oracle Data Mining, now part of Oracle Advanced Analytics, helps enable customers to easily build and deploy predictive analytic applications that help deliver new insights into business performance.

"Oracle is committed to meeting the challenges of Big Data analytics.  By building upon the analytical depth of Oracle SQL, Oracle Data Mining and the R environment, Oracle is delivering a scalable and secure Big Data platform to help our customers solve the toughest analytics problems," said Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice-President, Oracle Server Technologies.