Oracle Big Data SQL supports queries against vast amounts of big data stored in multiple data sources, including Apache Hive, HDFS, Oracle NoSQL Database, and Apache HBase. You can view and analyze data from various data stores together, as if it were all stored in an Oracle database.
Using Oracle Big Data SQL, you can query data stored in a Hadoop cluster using the complete SQL syntax. You can execute the most complex SQL
SELECT statements against data in Hadoop, either manually or using your existing applications, to tease out the most significant insights.Oracle Big Data SQL is licensed separately from Oracle Big Data Appliance.