The Oracle Cloud SQL feature available for use with Oracle Big Data Service has been upgraded to use the Oracle Query Server 4.1. Enhancements for Query Server 4.1 include:

Object Store Reader Enhancements

The following ORACLE_BIGDATA driver updates are available:

• Support for Apache ORC file format.
• Support for complex data types with ORC, Parquet and Avro. This capability was supported in Hadoop, and is now supported with ORACLE_BIGDATA.
• Enhancements to Text Driver. New text-based access parameters available.

Support for Microsoft's Azure Blob Object Storage

• The ORACLE_BIGDATA driver has been extended to support the creation of external tables that map to data stored in Azure Blob storage.