Posted: January 31st, 2012, 8:40am MST
Oracle first introduced its Big Data Appliance as well as the NoSQL database at the company's OpenWorld user conference last October. According to analyst David Menninger of Ventana Research, the appliance was created to manage and analyze data sets deemed to be too large for storing in standard databases. The Big Data Appliance boasts a lineup including Sun server hardware (18 Linux-based x86 Sun servers with 216 processor cores, 648TB raw disk storage, 864GB working memory), Oracle NoSQL database, Oracle's Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, and an open-source distribution of R. George Lumpkin, Or...