Doris JDBC Catalog supports connecting to Oracle databases through the standard JDBC interface. This document describes how to configure an Oracle database connection.

Terms and Conditions

To connect to an Oracle database, you need

• Oracle 19c, 18c, 12c, 11g or 10g.

• JDBC driver for Oracle database, you can download the Oracle JDBC driver for Ojdbc8 and above versions from Maven repository.

• Doris Network connection between each FE and BE node and Oracle server, default port is 1521.

Connect to Oracle

CREATE CATALOG oracle PROPERTIES (
    "type"="jdbc",
    "user"="root",
    "password"="secret",
    "jdbc_url" = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@example.net:1521:orcl",
    "driver_url" = "ojdbc8.jar",
    "driver_class" = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
)

Note

jdbc_url defines the connection information and parameters to be passed to the JDBC driver. When using the Oracle JDBC Thin driver, the syntax of the URL may vary depending on your Oracle configuration. For example, if you are connecting to an Oracle SID or Oracle service name, the connection URL will be different. For more information, see Oracle Database JDBC Driver Documentation . The above example URL connects to an Oracle SID named orcl.

Hierarchical mapping

When mapping Oracle, a Database in Doris corresponds to a User in Oracle. The Table under Doris’s Database corresponds to the Table that the User has permission to access in Oracle. That is, the mapping relationship is as follows:

Type mapping

Oracle to Doris type mapping

Query optimization

Statistics

Doris maintains table statistics in the Catalog so that it can better optimize query plans when executing queries.

See external-statistics to learn how to collect statistics.

Predicate pushdown

1. When executing a query like where dt = '2022-01-01', Doris can push these filtering conditions down to the external data source, thereby directly excluding data that does not meet the conditions at the data source level, reducing unnecessary data acquisition and transmission. This greatly improves query performance while also reducing the load on external data sources.

2. When the variable enable_ext_func_pred_pushdown is set to true, the function conditions after where will also be pushed down to the external data source.

   The functions that currently support push down to Oracle include:

   Function
   NVL

Row limit

If you have the limit keyword in the query, Doris will escape the limit to Oracle’s rownum syntax to reduce the amount of data transfer.

Escape characters

Doris will automatically add the escape character (“”) to the field names and table names in the query statements sent to Oracle to avoid conflicts between the field names and table names and Oracle’s internal keywords.

FAQ

1. ONS configuration failed occurs when creating or querying Oracle Catalog

   Add -Doracle.jdbc.fanEnabled=false to JAVA_OPTS in be.conf and upgrade the driver to https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/oracle/database/jdbc/ojdbc8/19.23.0.0/ojdbc8-19.23.0.0.jar

2. Non supported character set (add orai18n.jar in your classpath): ZHS16GBK exception occurs when creating or querying Oracle Catalog

   Download orai18n.jar and put it in the custom_lib/ directory under each FE and BE directory (if not exists, just create it manually) and restart each FE and BE.