Oracle Data Mining

Oracle Data Mining is Oracle's data mining product, now presented through Oracle Data Miner, an extension to Oracle SQL Developer. It lets analysts work with data inside the database and forecast outcomes such as customer buying interests and fraud.

What Oracle Data Mining offers

• Graphical workflows — a drag-and-drop editor records the analytical steps taken so they can be repeated and shared.
• Model building — builds several machine learning models at once and compares them, including test data splits and lift charts.
• Data preparation — nodes for binning, recoding, missing values and engineered features.
• Attribute selection — a column filter that finds the most influential attributes.
• Deployment — generates SQL and PL/SQL scripts and has a workflow API.

Who it works with

Data scientists, so-called citizen data scientists, and business and data analysts.

Key facts

• Platform: extension to Oracle SQL Developer
• Data types: structured tables and views, text, transactional, spatial and graph data
• Integration: open source R functions can run in the database