Oracle Connector

Overview

The Oracle connector allows querying and creating tables in an external Oracle database. It can be used to join data between different databases, such as Oracle and Hive, or two different Oracle instances.

Configuration

Basic Configuration

Before using the Oracle connector, you should prepare:

  • JDBC connection details for connecting to the Oracle database

The details should be written in a regular openLooKeng connector configuration (for example, the openLooKeng catalog named oracle uses oracle.properties). The file must contain the following content and replace the connection properties based on the settings:

Basic properties:

connector.name=oracle
connection-url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@host:port/ORCLCDB
connection-user=username
connection-password=password
  • Adding the Oracle driver

The Oracle JDBC driver is not provided in a common repository. If you are an Oracle database user, you can visit the official Oracle website, and download and deploy the Oracle JDBC driver to the repository on the condition that the license for the Oracle JDBC driver is complied with. The Oracle JDBC driver (ojdbcX.jar where X is a number and varies according to the Oracle version) may be installed as a part of the Oracle client or downloaded from the official Oracle website. After obtaining the Oracle JDBC driver, you can deploy the jdbc.jar file to the openLooKeng plugin folder on the coordinator and worker. For example, if the JDBC driver file is ojdbcX**.jar** and the openLooKeng plugin package folder is /usr/lib/presto/lib/plugin, run the following command: cp ojdbcX.jar /usr/lib/presto/lib/plugin/oracle。 Restart the coordinator and worker. Then, the Oracle connector can work properly.

  • Whether to enable the query pushdown function

The pushdown function of the Oracle connector is enabled by default, and you do not need to perform any operation. You can also set the parameter as follows:

jdbc.pushdown-enabled=true
#true indicates that pushdown is enabled, and false indicates that pushdown is disabled.
  • Mode for the push-down feature

If you want to enable the connector all push down feature for oracle connector, you do not need to do any things for oracle connector’s push down feature, which is FULL_PUSHDOWN on by default. But you can also set as below:

jdbc.pushdown-module=FULL_PUSHDOWN  
#FULL_PUSHDOWN: All push down. BASE_PUSHDOWN: Partial push down, which indicates that filter, aggregation, limit, topN and project can be pushed down.

Multiple Oracle Databases or Servers

If you want to connect to multiple Oracle databases, configure another instance of the Oracle plugin as a separate catalog. To add another Oracle catalog, create a new property file with a different name (the file name extension is .properties) in ../conf/catalog. For example, if a file named oracle2.properties is created in ../conf/catalog, add a connector named oracle2.

Querying Oracle Using openLooKeng

For the Oracle connector named oracle, each Oracle database user can run the SHOW SCHEMAS command to obtain the available schemas:

SHOW SCHEMAS FROM oracle;

If you have obtained the available schemas, run the SHOW TABLES command to view the tables owned by the Oracle database named data:

SHOW TABLES FROM oracle.data;

To view a list of columns in a table named hello in data schema, run either of the following commands:

DESCRIBE oracle.data.hello;
SHOW COLUMNS FROM oracle.data.hello;

You can access the hello table in the data schema:

SELECT * FROM oracle.data.hello;

The connector’s permissions in these schemas are your permissions configured in the connection property file. If you cannot access the tables, a specific connector cannot access them.

Oracle Update/Delete Support

Create Oracle Table

Example:

CREATE TABLE oracle_table (
    id int,
    name varchar(255));

INSERT on Oracle tables

Example:

INSERT INTO oracle_table
  VALUES
     (1, 'foo'),
     (2, 'bar');

UPDATE on Oracle tables

Example:

UPDATE oracle_table
  SET name='john'
  WHERE id=2;

Above example updates the column name’s value to john of row with column id having value 2.

SELECT result before UPDATE:

lk:default> SELECT * FROM oracle_table;
id | name
----+------
  2 | bar
  1 | foo
(2 rows)

SELECT result after UPDATE

lk:default> SELECT * FROM oracle_table;
 id | name
----+------
  2 | john
  1 | foo
(2 rows)

DELETE on Oracle tables

Example:

DELETE FROM oracle_table
  WHERE id=2;

Above example delete the row with column id having value 2.

SELECT result before DELETE:

lk:default> SELECT * FROM oracle_table;
 id | name
----+------
  2 | john
  1 | foo
(2 rows)

SELECT result after DELETE:

lk:default> SELECT * FROM oracle_table;
 id | name
----+------
  1 | foo
(1 row)

Mapping Data Types Between openLooKeng and Oracle

Type-related configuration items

Configuration ItemDescriptionDefault Value
unsupported-type.handling-strategySpecifies how to handle an unsupported column data type:
FAIL - report an error.
IGNORE - The column cannot be accessed.
CONVERT_TO_VARCHAR - Convert the column to a unbounded VARCHAR.
FAIL
oracle.number.default-scaleIf the precision and number of decimal places are not specified for the number data type in the Oracle database, the number data type is converted to an openLooKeng data type. The precision is converted based on this item.0
oracle.number.rounding-modeRounding mode of the Oracle NUMBER data type. This item is useful when the size specified by the Oracle NUMBER data type is greater than that supported by Presto. The possible values are as follows:
UNNECESSARY - Rounding mode, to assert that the requested operation has an accurate result, so no rounding is required.
CEILING - Round to positive infinity.
FLOOR - Round to negative infinity.
HALF_DOWN - Rounds to the nearest neighbor. If the distances of two neighbors are the same, round down to the nearest neighbor.
HALF_EVEN - If the distances of two neighbors are the same, round down to the even neighbor.
HALF_UP - Round to the nearest neighbor. If the distances of two neighbors are the same, round up to the nearest neighbor.
UP - Round up to zero.
DOWN - Round down to zero.
UNNECESSARY

Type Mapping From Oracle to openLooKeng

The openLooKeng supports selecting the following Oracle database types. The following table lists the type mapping from Oracle to openLooKeng.

Data type mapping

Oracle Database TypeopenLooKeng TypeDescription
NUMBER(p, s)DECIMAL(p, s)
NUMBER(p)DECIMAL(p, 0)
FLOAT(p)DOUBLE
BINARY_FLOATREAL
BINARY_DOUBLEDOUBLE
VARCHAR2(n CHAR)VARCHAR(n)
VARCHAR2(n BYTE)VARCHAR(n)
CHAR(n)CHAR(n)
NCHAR(n)CHAR(n)
CLOBVARCHAR
NCLOBVARCHAR
RAW(n)VARCHAR
BLOBVARBINARY
DATETIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP(p)TIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP(p) WITH TIME ZONETIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE

Type Mapping From openLooKeng to Oracle

The openLooKeng supports creating tables with the following types in an Oracle database. The following table shows the mappings from openLooKeng to Oracle data types.

Data type mapping

openLooKeng TypeOracle Database TypeDescription
TINYINTNUMBER(3)
SMALLINTNUMBER(5)
INTEGERNUMBER(10)
BIGINTNUMBER(19)
DECIMAL(p, s)NUMBER(p, s)
REALBINARY_FLOAT
DOUBLEBINARY_DOUBLE
VARCHARNCLOB
VARCHAR(n)VARCHAR2(n CHAR) or NCLOB
CHAR(n)CHAR(n CHAR) or NCLOB
VARBINARYBLOB
DATEDATE
TIMESTAMPTIMESTAMP(3)
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONETIMESTAMP(3) WITH TIME ZONE

Common Functions Between openLooKeng and Oracle

There are some common functions between the openLooKeng and Oracle databases. For details about the functions, see the function and operator documents in the openLooKeng and the official Oracle website. The following table lists the common functions.

FunctionDescription
absMathematical function
acosMathematical function
asinMathematical function
atanMathematical function
ceilMathematical function
cosMathematical function
coshMathematical function
expMathematical function
floorMathematical function
lnMathematical function
roundMathematical function
signMathematical function
sinMathematical function
sqrtMathematical function
tanMathematical function
tanhMathematical function
modMathematical function
concatString function
greatestString function
leastString function
lengthString function
lowerString function
ltrimString function
replaceString function
rpadString function
rtrimString function
trimString function
upperString function
reverseString function
regexp_likeString function
regexp_replaceString function
avgAggregation function
countAggregation function
maxAggregation function
minAggregation function
stddevAggregation function
sumAggregation function
varianceAggregation function

Syntax Differences Between Oracle SQL and OpenLooKeng SQL

openLooKeng supports the standard SQL:2003 syntax, which is different from the Oracle SQL syntax. To run Oracle SQL statements in the openLooKeng, you need to perform equivalent syntax conversion on the SQL statements. For details about the Oracle and openLooKeng SQL syntax, see the official documents.

Support for Oracle Synonyms

To ensure performance, the openLooKeng disables the Oracle SYNONYM function by default. You can enable this function by the following configuration:

oracle.synonyms.enabled=true

Restrictions on the Oracle Connector

  • The openLooKeng can connect to Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Database 12c.

  • The Oracle Connector does not support query pushdown for Oracle Update yet.

Oracle Number Type

The precision of the number type in the Oracle database is variable, while the openLooKeng does not support variable precision. For this reason, if the precision is not specified when an Oracle table uses the number type, the openLooKeng converts the number type of the Oracle database to the decimal type of the openLooKeng. As a result, some precision loss occurs in a particular value range.