Oracle BDCSCE Upgraded: Zeppelin 0.7 and Spark 2.1
Last week, Oracle Big Data Cloud Service – Compute Edition was upgraded from 17.2.5 to 17.3.1-20. I do not know if the new version is still in testing phase and available to only trial users, but sooner or later the new version will be available to all Oracle Cloud users.
The new version is still based on HDP 2.4.2 but it contains upgrades on two key components: Zeppelin and Spark. Users can now select which Spark version they will use (version 2.1 or version 1.6) when creating the service, and Zeppelin 0.7 installed instead of Zeppelin 0.6. Both of them are important changes.