Oracle Updates Advanced Analytics with Open Source R | Linux Today

Oracle Updates Advanced Analytics with Open Source R

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 12, 2012

“With the Big Data Appliance, Oracle is leveraging the services
of commercial Hadoop vendor Cloudera for support. In contrast, with
Oracle R Enterprise, Oracle is not leaning on amy commercial R
vendor, but rather is using the pure open source R project as the
base. R currently has commercial support from vendor Revolution
Analytics.

“Oracle will be redistributing open source R and Oracle itself
is providing support for it, specifically for customers of Oracle R
Enterprise or the Big Data Appliance,” Lumpkin said.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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