Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service vs. Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization vs. Unlambda vs. Visual Basic Comparison Chart

Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service enables organizations to immediately analyze data across Apache Hadoop, NoSQL and Oracle Database leveraging their existing SQL skills, security policies and applications with extreme performance. From simplifying data science efforts to unlocking data lakes, Big Data SQL makes the benefits of Big Data available to the largest group of end users possible. Big Data SQL gives users a single location to catalog and secure data in Hadoop and NoSQL systems, Oracle Database. Seamless metadata integration and queries which join data from Oracle Database with data from Hadoop and NoSQL databases. Utilities and conversion routines support automatic mappings from metadata stored in HCatalog (or the Hive Metastore) to Oracle Tables. Enhanced access parameters give administrators the flexibility to control column mapping and data access behavior. Multiple cluster support enables one Oracle Database to query multiple Hadoop clusters and/or NoSQL systems.

Unlambda is a programming language. Nothing remarkable there. The originality of Unlambda is that it stands as the unexpected intersection of two marginal families of languages. Functional programming languages, of which the canonical representative is Scheme (a Lisp dialect). This means that the basic object manipulated by the language (and indeed the only one as far as Unlambda is concerned) is the function. Rather, Unlambda uses a functional approach to programming: the only form of objects it manipulates are functions. Each function takes a function as an argument and returns a function. Apart from a binary “apply” operation, Unlambda provides several built-in functions (the most important ones being the K and S combinators). User-defined functions can be created, but not saved or named, because Unlambda does not have any variables.