Using Endeca with Oracle Exalytics - Oracle France BI Customer Event, October 2013

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Using Endeca with Oracle Exalytics
Mark Rittman, CTO, Rittman Mead
Oracle France BI Customer Event, October 2013

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About the Speaker
•Mark Rittman, Co-Founder of Rittman Mead
•Oracle ACE Director, specialising in Oracle BI&DW
•14 Years Experience with Oracle Technology
•Regular columnist for Oracle Magazine
•Author of two Oracle Press Oracle BI books
•Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide
•Oracle Exalytics Revealed
•Writer for Rittman Mead Blog :
http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog
•Email : mark.rittman@rittmanmead.com
•Twitter : @markrittman

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About Rittman Mead
•Oracle BI and DW Gold partner
•World leading specialist partner for technical excellence,
solutions delivery and innovation in Oracle BI
•Approximately 80 consultants worldwide
•All expert in Oracle BI and DW
•Offices in US (Atlanta), Europe, Australia and India
•Skills in broad range of supporting Oracle tools:
‣OBIEE, OBIA
‣ODIEE
‣Essbase, Oracle OLAP
‣GoldenGate
‣Endeca

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Endeca for Information Discovery
•Oracle Endeca Information Discovery is Oracle’s “information discovery” platform
•Allows business users to quickly analyze and understand all data, whatever it looks like
•Search-first interface
•Key-value store database
•Unstructured data
•Fast, intuitive analysis
across all data sources

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The “Secret Sauce”: The Endeca Server
•Hybrid Search/Analytic database
•In-memory store, with persistence to a column-store on-disk database
•Search / text-analysis capabilities
•Fast aggregation + calc
•Accessed via Endeca Studio,
and ETL via web service API
•Endeca Server hallmarks:
‣Minimal upfront design
‣Support for “jagged” data
‣Administered via web service calls
‣“No data left behind”
‣“Load and Go”

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How Endeca Is Usually Deployed
•Although Endeca Information Discovery is very
user-focused, it’s infrastructure is complex
•Endeca Server, Endeca Integrator, Endeca Studio
- all JEE apps on WebLogic Server
‣Therefore usually deployed on-site
‣Or as a SaaS managed service
•... None of which are under the business’ control
•... and are often sized incorrectly at the start
Oracle Endeca Server
Oracle Endeca Information
Discovery Integrator
Oracle Endeca Information
Discovery Studio
Call centre
transcripts
Spreadsheets
and budget data
Documents, PDFs
and other unstructured
sources
RDBMS Data Master Data Social Media
and Web feeds

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Optimal Endeca Deployment: On Exalytics In-Memory Machine
•Combines the benefits of SaaS, with the power and control of having an on-premise server
•All the simplicity of SaaS
‣Simple set-up using confirmed compatible hardware
‣Simple patching, upgrades, co-ordinated
•All the power of on-premise
‣Your own hardware, reserved for you
‣Managed by your IT team
•Lower TCO, faster time-to-value
Oracle
Exalytics
In-Memory
Machine

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What is Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine?
•Combination of hardware and software: the BI Engineered System
•Available in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB RAM configurations
•40 CPU cores (128 in 4TB version)
•Runs Oracle Linux / Solaris (4TB)
•Optimized versions of OBIEE, Essbase
•Certified to run Endeca Information Discovery

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Endeca on Exalytics: Manageability Benefits
•Project de-risking: Endeca guaranteed to work on your hardware platform
•Simplified install: all documented and certified to work together
•Right-size hardware first time: Endeca projects grow fast - no endless re-provisioning h/w
•Dev / Test / Prod on one box: Less environments to manage
•Oracle Integrated Technology: Enterprise Manager, ILOM etc
•Lower TCO / Certified platform

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Exalytics Software: An Evolving and Future-Proof Platform
Oct 11 Feb 12 Aug Sep Jan 13 Apr Jul
Exalytics
announced at
OOW2011
v1.0.0.0
OBI 11.1.1.5Essbase
11.1.2.2.0 TimesTen
11.2.2.2.1
PS1 (v1.0.0.1)
OBI 11.1.1.6.2 BP1
Essbase
11.1.2.2.100TimesTe
n 11.2.2.3.0
Certified:
Golden Gate 11.1.1
ODI 11.1.1.5+
Endeca 2.3
OBIA 7.9.6.4
Exalytics
available to
license through
Trusted
Partitions on
OVM
PS2 (v1.0.0.2)
OBI 11.1.1.6.5+
Essbase
11.1.2.2.101+TimesT
en 11.2.2.4.1+
Certified:
Endeca 3.0
PS3 (v1.0.0.3)
Essbase
11.1.2.2.200OBIEE
11.1.1.7.0+
TimesTen 11.2.2.5
Certified:
Essbase 11.1.2.3
OBIA 11.1.1.7.1
Exalytics X2-
4/V1
becomes GA
Exalytics X2-
4/V1
becomes GA
Hardware upgrade,
new OBI features,
support for OBIA
11g
Hardware upgrade,
new OBI features,
support for OBIA
11g
Non-core software
such as ODI and
Golden Gate now
certified
Non-core software
such as ODI and
Golden Gate now
certified
Software
support
updates
Software
support
updates
Flash PCIe
added
Flash PCIe
added

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Exalytics Hardware: Clear Engineered System Platform Path
Oct 11 Feb 12 Aug Sep Jan 13 Apr Jul
Exalytics
announced at
OOW2011
X2-4
•40 cores (4x E7-4800)1TB
RAM3.6TB raw disk (6x SAS-2
600GB)
•Two 40Gb/s InfiniBand
portsFour 10/100/1000Base-T
on-board Ethernet ports
Exalytics available to
license through
Trusted Partitions on
OVM
X2-4 Flash Upgrade
Kit
Adds 2.4TB of Flash
storage to existing X2-4
machines, with 6x Sun
F40 400GB eMLC Flash
PCIe cards
X3-4
•40 cores (4x E7-4800)2TB RAM
•2.4TB eMLC Flash
PCIe5.4TB raw disk (6x SAS-2
900GB)
•Two 40Gb/s InfiniBand
portsFour 10/100/1000Base-T
on-board Ethernet ports
X2-4 Memory and Flash
Upgrade KitAdds 2.4TB Flash
PCIe and additional 1TB RAM to
existing X2-4 machines
and additional 1TB RAM to
existing X2-4 machines
Exalytics X2-
4/V1
becomes GA
Exalytics X2-
4/V1
becomes GA
Hardware upgrade,
new OBI features,
support for OBIA
11g
Hardware upgrade,
new OBI features,
support for OBIA
11g
Non-core software
such as ODI and
Golden Gate now
certified
Non-core software
such as ODI and
Golden Gate now
certified
Software
support
updates
Software
support
updates
Flash PCIe
added
Flash PCIe
added

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Endeca on Exalytics: Business Benefits
•A dedicated business discovery appliance, under the control of the business
‣But hosted by IT, managed as part of the enterprise
•All the h/w resources you’ll need, optimized for data discovery
•Only dependency on IT is for initial configuration,
and access to new data feeds
•Able to handle the largest workloads
•Ability to scale-out later to include BI and OLAP, if required

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Endeca on Exalytics: Integration with OBIEE
•Endeca can be integrated with OBIEE in several ways
•Works better on Exalytics, as all components certified and upgraded in-sync
•Use OBIEE as a structured data source for Endeca
•Include Endeca visualizations in OBIEE dashboards
•Simple add-on or Exalytics

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Exalytics: The Ideal Hardware Platform for Endeca Server
•Endeca server abstracts query evaluation from
physical processors, maximizing performance
across multi-core processors and servers
‣ Scale increases, and latency decreases, the
more CPUs/cores available to Endeca Server
•Server RAM used to cache “hot” working set of
column segments, and query results
•Columnar compression used for disk persistence
of the data set, which also benefits from fast CPU
during the compression process
•Ideal Endeca environment = server with
lots of RAM, and a lot of CPUs...

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Exalytics: The Ideal Hardware Platform for Endeca Server
•2TB RAM on Exalytics server means faster
analysis of larger datasets
•Larger datasets, as more records can be
held in memory (limiting factor for datastores)
•More query results can be cached
•More concurrent users can be supported
•40 CPU cores allows massively parallel queries
•Endeca Server inherent PQ design automatically
makes use of high number of cores
•Faster queries, faster indexing
•Enterprise-scale Endeca, with the speed of
a desktop in-memory column-store query tool
Oracle
Exalytics
In-Memory
Machine

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Summary
•Endeca Information Discovery provides fast access to all of your data sets
•Using a “search first” user interface, as simple to use as Google
•Running Endeca on Exalytics provides a number of benefits
‣To the business: your own dedicated data discovery environment, sized correctly
‣To IT: simple setup and configuration, guaranteed to work from the start
•Exalytics is the perfect hardware platform for Endeca
‣2TB RAM: enables the largest datasets to go into memory
‣40 CPU cores: supports the largest workload, maximizes parallel query of data
•Enables further integration with OBIEE and Essbase - complete BI platform

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Thank You for Attending!
•Thank you for attending this presentation, and more information can be found at
http://www.rittmanmead.com
•Contact us at info@rittmanmead.com or mark.rittman@rittmanmead.com
•Look out for our book, “Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide” out now!
•Follow-us on Twitter (@rittmanmead) or Facebook (facebook.com/rittmanmead)

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