Calling Python from Oracle

Question

Is it possible to call Python within an Oracle procedure? I\'ve read plenty of literature about the reverse case (calling Oracle SQL from Python), but not the other way around.<

Answer 1

Depending on context you want to use Python you may consider OML4Py:

Oracle Machine Learning

Key benefits:

In-Database Processing: “Move the algorithms, not the data!”—Process data where it resides to eliminate data movement and further leverage your Oracle environment as a high performance compute engine with parallel, distributed algorithms.

Rapidly Deploy Machine Learning Applications—Because in-database machine learning models are native SQL functions, model deployment is immediate via SQL and R scripts.

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Further reading:

Oracle Machine Learning: Scaling R and Python for the Enterprise

Slides(answering this particular question):

• page 7: Data access, analysis, and exploration
• page 24: Create user-defined functions from SQL (or use from R/Python)
• page 25: Invoke user-defined functions from SQL

Oracle Machine Learning Platform Move the algorithms, not the data!