Oracle Big Data Service

5.6easy start · #16 of 17
in Data Lake Software

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Runs on api, Linux, Web.

Oracle Big Data Service is ranked #16 of 17 in data lake software on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Linux, Web. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered.

Oracle Big Data Service plans and pricing

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Oracle Big Data Service $0.02 OCPU per hour; Oracle’s pricing page lists this as the service fee. Compute shapes and Oracle Cloud SQL are priced separately. OCPU per hour · Compute and storage charges apply separately oracle.com · 5 Oct 2026

Compared on data lake software

Free plan: No
Deployment model: cloud
Ingestion modes: both
Metadata catalog: Yes
Governance controls: Yes
Query interface: both

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The record

What it does: Oracle Big Data Service is a managed cloud service for creating Hadoop-based data lakes that process large amounts of data.
Hadoop stack: The service includes Oracle Distribution including Apache Hadoop, with Apache Ambari, Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Spark, and other services.
Cluster sizing: Customers can create clusters using OCI compute shapes, from small development clusters to large production clusters on dedicated hardware.
Storage options: The product page says customers can choose high-performance NVMe storage or lower-cost block storage and grow or shrink clusters.
High availability: Secure, high-availability clusters are available as an option.
SQL and data sources: Oracle Cloud SQL can query data in Hadoop, Kafka, NoSQL, and object stores using Oracle SQL.
Machine learning: The product page describes Oracle Machine Learning for SparkR for working with HDFS, Spark DataFrames, and JDBC sources, and building models in R.
Access methods: Users can access the service through the browser-based OCI Console, OCI CLI, REST APIs, or SDKs.
Security: Block Volume data used by Big Data Service is encrypted at rest by default, and OCI IAM controls authentication and authorization.
Integrations: Oracle documents integrations with OCI Object Storage and Data Catalog; Cloud SQL also analyzes data across Hadoop, Kafka, NoSQL, and object stores.
Updates and support: Oracle says cluster release updates must be applied to keep Big Data Service clusters up to date and supported.
Intended workloads: Oracle describes the service for short-lived clusters handling specific tasks as well as long-lived clusters managing large data lakes.
Trial: OCI offers a 30-day trial with $300 in credits for eligible services; the page does not specifically identify Big Data Service as eligible.
Pricing detail: Oracle lists Big Data Service compute standard at $0.17614464, Dense I/O at $0.2804684, HPC at $0.20130816, and Cloud SQL at $0.1408895 per OCPU per hour.

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Data Lake Software in 2026#16 of 17

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Sources

oracle.com/big-data/big-data-service/· checked 5 Oct 2026
docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/bigdata/overview.htm· checked 5 Oct 2026
docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/bigdata/integrated-s· checked 5 Oct 2026
docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier.ht· checked 5 Oct 2026
oracle.com/cloud/iaas-paas/· checked 5 Oct 2026