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OAC direct connector with Cloud Storage Buckets

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Genpact

Description

Need direct connection from OAC with Cloud Storage Buckets (OCI object storage, S3, Azure Data lake Storage etc.). This way dataset’s can be directly consumed.

Use Case and Business Need

With modern data lake solutions most of the data get stored in the storage bucket during ingestion and post processing. If OAC can have direct connector with cloud storage buckets like OCI object storage, S3, Azure Data lake Storage etc. Data will be easily accessible for analytics needs.

Original Idea Number: 736511779d

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  • M_Kumaran
    M_Kumaran Rank 5 - Community Champion

    Wish this is enabled. Save processing times.

  • Megan-Mo-Oracle
    Megan-Mo-Oracle Rank 1 - Community Starter

    Since OAC has the ability to profile data using Explain, it would be very helpful to be able to analyze data that has been uploaded into Oracle Object Storage before deciding how much of it should be loaded into ADW. This is especially helpful when the data is large so that time and effort of loading it into ADW can be optimized.

  • Stephen Weingartner
    Stephen Weingartner Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    This would save customers from having to move and transform data in order to report on it. Many customers have data in many locations beyond a database. Other competitor BI tools allow direct reads against object store data sets.

  • User_LG45B
    User_LG45B Rank 1 - Community Starter

    Since there's a option to connect to Google Drive or Dropbox, it makes sense to have native connectors to OCI Object Storage [AWS S3, Azure Blob].

  • User_7CMER
    User_7CMER Rank 3 - Community Apprentice

    Would be nice to use the object storage as a direct source.

  • User_AR4L9
    User_AR4L9 Rank 1 - Community Starter

    As Object storage is natural store for image, logs - this must be a standard feature for any analytics, big data use case.

    It is high time that this feature is made available in OAC.  My one of Swedish retailer is stuck with issue now!

     

    Cheers

    Ajit

  • +1 to this one.

    I have a business customer who uses Azure Blob storage as pretty much their data warehouse and are very happy with Power BI's ability to connect and work with files as if they are database tables. This ability would greatly accelerate OAC's adoption. Not to mention, the same API could be used to store snapshots on object storage as opposed to downloading them.

  • The detail that is generally missing from this discussion is a description of what kind of object/data you expect to use that is stored in the object storage. Are you talking about xlsx and csv that Data Sets can consume or something else? If it's something else, how do you intend to use it?

  • Vinod Shivarudrappa-Oracle
    Vinod Shivarudrappa-Oracle Rank 1 - Community Starter

    Hi Adam,

    This is my customer's use case:

    Data comes from various sources into Azure blob storage. They use Databricks Delta Lake (https://databricks.com/product/delta-lake-on-databricks) - pyspark to process data using spark jobs (dataframes within spark). At the end of the process, usable data is available as parquet files for PowerBI.

    Simply put:

    Data Sources --> Azure Blob Storage via Databricks Delta Lake --> Power BI


    The need of the hour is to build a semantic layer on top of this data in blob storage. Just like on a database, they are looking for OAC to have the ability to ultimately make subject areas available on this data.

  • So what you are asking for is support for Parquet files (in addition to the existing xlsx and csv support), plus a connector to Azure Blob Storage and Oracle Object Storage?