In this
blog, I will cover what is OAC and Why OAC. In my next, will deep dive into
features and stuff.
OAC is
Oracle Analytics Cloud, a PaaS service offered by Oracle. Its launched in 2014.
Around 1400+ customers are already using as of May 2017.
As we all
know BICS is already in market and it is offered under SaaS by Oracle. So what's
new and why we need OAC is what we understand next in this blog.
BICS is an
Oracle managed and OAC is Customer/Partner managed - major change in cloud
offerings by Oracle.
Below are three offerings by Oracle
in OAC
1) Standard Edition
(Data Visualization +
Essbase)
2) Data Lake Edition (Standard + Big Data Source)
3) Enterprise Edition (Data Lake + Essbase Enterprise)
|
Features |
Standard |
Data Lake |
Enterprise |
|
DataVisualizationCloudService - DVCS |
X |
X |
X |
|
Oracle Smart View |
X |
X |
X |
|
Oracle Essbase Standard |
X |
X |
X |
|
Big Data Source |
|
X |
X |
|
Data Modeling |
|
|
X |
|
Oracle Essbase Enterprise |
|
|
X |
|
Oracle Day by Day |
|
|
X |
Now we know
various offering in OAC, lets understand difference between BICS and OAC
Difference between BICS and OAC
|
Features |
BICS and DVCS today |
OAC |
|
Automatic Backup |
Oracle |
Client/Partner |
|
Monitoring |
Oracle |
Client/Partner |
|
Patch and Upgrade |
Oracle |
Client/Partner |
|
CPU & Memory |
Oracle |
Client/Partner can decide and control |
|
Server Access & Config |
Oracle |
Client/Partner can access through SSH |
|
Network & Security Config |
Limited
Support |
Client/Partner will have complete control
to access network |
|
DB Dependency |
Have to buy Schema as Service (BIS50) |
Customer needs to provide at least 10
CPU DBaaS |
|
IaaS Dependency |
None |
Client is required to buy some IaaS
storage |
Various sources supported by OAC
SaaS/PaaS ->
Database - >
BIG Data - >
Generic ->
To get start with OAC instance set up, we need below as prerequisite
OSCS -
Oracle Storage Cloud Service - Backup, restore, archive
Block
Storage - Oracle IaaS service offering for flexible and scalable compute and
block storage
DBCS -Data
Base Cloud Service - DbaaS service offered by Oracle
Why OAC? What's new in OAC?
Will deep dive into features and advances features in my next blogs on OAC. Thanks.