With the ORACLE_BIGDATA access driver, you can access data stored externally (in object stores or file systems) as if that data was stored in tables in an Oracle Database.

• Accessing External Data Using the ORACLE_BIGDATA Driver
  You can use the ORACLE_BIGDATA driver to access data located in external file systems and object stores.
• Enabling and Configuring your Database for Object Storage Access
  Accessing data residing in object stores or other external places with HTTPS requires the installation and configuration of DBMS_CLOUD.
• Setting Up Credentials and Location Parameters for Object Stores
  You create credential objects and then specify the object store URI.
• ORACLE_BIGDATA Accessing Files
  To use ORACLE_BIGDATA, you provide information in an access parameter to indicate how to access and parse the data.
• ORACLE_BIGDATA Accessing Apache Iceberg
  See how to use the Apache Iceberg open table format with the Oracle Big Data Access Driver
• ORACLE_BIGDATA Accessing Delta Sharing
  See how to use the Linux Foundation Projects Delta Sharing data sharing protocol with the Oracle Big Data Access Driver
• ORACLE_BIGDATA Accessing JSON Documents File Type
  See how to use a native JSON reader format (jsondoc) for documents stored in object storage or local directories.