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New Roman"">We are very pleased to announce the
availability of Oracle NoSQL Database Release 12c (12.1.3.2.5).
Please forward this announcement<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span
style="color:black">widely</span><span style="color:#1F497D">.</span><br>
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Oracle NoSQL Database 12.1.3.2.5 adds several new features
including Big Data SQL support and a RESTful API. We strongly
recommend that users upgrade to this release to take advantage
of these new features. These new features include: </span><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Oracle Big Data SQL support</span></u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">: Oracle NoSQL Database can be
queried using Oracle Big Data SQL enabling seamless, high
performance integration between relational and NoSQL data. The
process for connecting to the Oracle NoSQL Database from
Oracle Big Data SQL is described in section "6.4 Creating an
Oracle External Table for Oracle NoSQL Database" of the</span><span
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/bigdata-appliance/documentation/index.html"><span
style="color:blue">BDA 4.1 Software User's Guide</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">New RESTful API:</span></u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""> The latest 3.0 release of the Oracle REST
Data Services adds support for Oracle NoSQL Database. This
allows customers to build a REST-based application that can
access data in either Oracle Database or Oracle NoSQL
Database. The REST Data Services product, documentation and
downloads can be found</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:blue"><a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/rest-data-services/ords-30-downloads-2373781.html"><span
style="color:blue">here</span></a></span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">New SQL-like DDL:</span></u><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""> A new declarative data definition language
and API has been added to support creation and management of
tables and indexes.</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">This
allows customers to more easily manage table and index
creation from the CLI as well as programmatically from the
application. The language reference is described in</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:blue"><a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/html/GettingStartedGuideTables/ddl_overview.html"><span
style="color:blue">Data Definition Language for Tables</span></a></span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">New C Table Driver:</span></u><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""> A THRIFT-based (JNI-less) C API client
driver has been added, with support for NoSQL Database tables
and indexes. This allows
NoSQL Database application developers to manage their NoSQL
Database tables and indexes in C. It is a separately
downloadable package on the same <u><span style="color:blue"><a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/nosqldb/downloads/index.html"><span
style="color:blue">NoSQL Database OTN download page</span></a></span></u></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">. </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">It is available as source code and must be
compiled, along with its dependent libraries. Complete
instructions are included the distribution package.</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
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line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">More flexible MAP indexes</span></u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">: NoSQL Database secondary
indices have been enhanced to support indexes on both the Key
and Value of a MAP data-type column. This is a unique feature
that allows customers to build highly dynamic, customizable
indexes on application MAPs, supporting a wide array of
different application data models. This new indexing
capability is documented <u><span style="color:blue"><a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/html/GettingStartedGuideTables/indexmaps.html"><span
style="color:blue">here</span></a></span></u></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
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line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in"><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Apache Hive support</span></u><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">: You can now query Oracle NoSQL Database
from Apache Hive, using HiveQL by creating a Hive External
Table that uses the
oracle.kv.hadoop.hive.table.TableStorageHandler class. This
allows customers to improve the performance, scalability and
reliability of Hive-based applications by using Oracle NoSQL
Database as their non-relational database. Documentation on
the oracle.kv.hadoop.hive.table package can be found</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:blue"><a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/html/javadoc/oracle/kv/hadoop/hive/table/package-summary.html"><span
style="color:blue">here</span></a></span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">New Diagnostics utility</span></u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">: Oracle NoSQL Database has added
a utility to make it easier to diagnose and troubleshoot
issues, especially within the context of a distributed
database system. This will make it easier for customers to
gather information and work with Oracle Support. The
documentation for the new Diagnostics utility can be found</span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""> </span><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";color:blue"><a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/html/AdminGuide/diag_util.html"><span
style="color:blue">here</span></a></span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">.</span><o:p> <br>
</o:p></li>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here
is the related information for this release:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Product
Download (<a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/nosqldb/downloads/index.html"><span
style="line-height:115%">OTN</span></a> | <a
href="https://edelivery.oracle.com/"><span
style="line-height:115%">OSDC</span></a>) </span><o:p></o:p></li>
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level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Product
Documentation (<a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/html/index.html"><span
style="line-height:115%">Doc</span></a>)</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oracle
Enterprise Manager Plugin for Oracle NoSQL Database (<a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/html/AdminGuide/oem-integration.html"><span
style="line-height:115%">Doc</span></a>)</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Complete
list of changes (<a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/html/changelog.html"><span
style="line-height:115%">ChangeLog</span></a>)</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Frequently
asked questions (<a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/nosqldb/overview/nosqldb-faq-518364.html"><span
style="line-height:115%">FAQ</span></a>)</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo4"> <span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">C Driver Quick Start Guide (<a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/html/booklets/c_driver/index.html"><span
style="color:blue">HTML</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""> | </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/html/booklets/c_driver/OracleNoSQLDatabase-C_Driver_QuickStart.pdf"><span
style="color:blue">PDF</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">)<o:p></o:p></span> <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Join
OTN and participate in the Oracle NoSQL Database Support <a
href="http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1388"><span
style="line-height:115%">Forum</span></a> discussions. Our
engineering and support staff are highly active on these forums,
if you have questions please ask them there first.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<span
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Thanks. <br>
Oracle NoSQL Database Team</span>
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