Oracle

Oracle Database Options and Managers

Oracle offers a wide range of options and mangers to extend the power of Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition to meet specific requirements in the areas of performance and availability, security and compliance, data warehousing, and manageability. This range of options, combined with Oracle Database's extensive out-of-the-box capabilities, make Oracle's the world's #1 database. See below for the Options and Managers available with Oracle Database 11g:

Real Application Testing

Real Application Testing —with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change. Real Application Testing combines a workload capture and replay feature with an SQL performance analyzer to help you test changes against real-life workloads, then

Oracle Advanced Compression

Oracle Advanced Compression compresses any type of data, including structured and unstructured data such as documents, images, and multimedia, as well as network traffic and data in the process of being backed up. As a result, Oracle Advanced Compression helps you use resources more efficiently and lower storage costs.

Oracle Total Recall

Oracle Total Recall —with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—helps companies store historical data (required by regulatory oversight) in a secure, tamper proof database while keeping it accessible to existing applications.

Oracle Active Data Guard

Oracle Active Data Guard —an option for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—enhances Quality of Service by offloading resource-intensive activities from a production database to one or more synchronized standby databases. Oracle Active Data Guard enables read-only access to a physical standby database for queries, sorting, reporting, web-based access, etc., while continuously applying changes received from the production database. Oracle Active Data Guard also enables the use of fast incremental backups when offloading backups to a standby database, and can provide additional benefits of high availability and disaster protection against planned or unplanned outages at the production site.

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) is an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition and included with Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition (on clusters with a maximum of 4 sockets). Oracle RAC supports the deployment of a single database across a cluster of servers—providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance and scalability with no application changes necessary.

Oracle Partitioning

Oracle Partitioning —an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition— enables tables and indexes to be split into smaller, more manageable components and is a key requirement for any large database with high performance and high availability requirements. Oracle Database 11g offers the widest choice of partitioning methods including interval, reference, list, and range in addition to composite partitions of two methods such as order date (range) and region (list) or region (list) and customer type (list).

Oracle Content Database Suite

Oracle Content Database Suite —an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition— is a highly scalable content management solution based on Oracle Database 11g—the industry's fastest, most reliable, and secure database. It enables organizations to control and manage large volumes of unstructured content such as documents, spreadsheets, and images in a centralized repository that is easy to access and maintain.

Oracle Warehouse Builder

Oracle Warehouse Builder enables you to take raw data, typically in different formats and disparate systems, and transform it into high-quality information that's optimized for business reporting and analytics. With a single, easy-to-use interface, Oracle Warehouse Builder enables you to design ETL processes and implement data integration for all your data movement requirements.

Oracle OLAP

Oracle OLAP —an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—is a calculation engine that supports the entire spectrum of advanced analytical applications including planning, budgeting, forecasting, sales, and marketing to help identify key business trends and model complex business scenarios. OLAP cube materialized views in Oracle Database 11g dramatically improves the performance of complex analytic queries accessing multi-dimensional data.

Oracle Data Mining (ODM)

Oracle Data Mining (ODM) —an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—enables customers to produce actionable predictive information and build integrated business intelligence applications. Using data mining functionality embedded in Oracle Database 11g, customers can find patterns and insights hidden in their data.

Oracle Spatial

Oracle Spatial —an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—includes full 3D and Web services support to manage all geospatial data including vector and raster data, topology, and network models. It's designed to meet the needs of advanced GIS systems for applications such as land management, utilities, and defense/homeland security.

Oracle Database Vault

Oracle Database Vault helps protect against the insider threat and address regulatory compliance needs such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and PCI. Oracle Database Vault can prevent highly privileged users, including powerful application DBA’s and others, from accessing sensitive applications and data in Oracle databases outside their authorized responsibilities.

Oracle Advanced Security

Oracle Advanced Security —an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—provides extensive data protection to secure data at rest and in transit. It combines network encryption, transparent data encryption at the column and tablespace level, as well as strong authentication to help customers address data privacy and compliance requirements.

Oracle Label Security

Oracle Label Security —an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—adds extensive protection for sensitive information. It delivers multilevel security capabilities to protect access to data right down to individual rows in tables and addresses the real world data security and privacy problems faced by government and commercial entities worldwide.

Oracle Database Management Packs

Oracle Database Management Packs provide an integrated management solution for managing Oracle database with a unique top-down application management approach. With new self-managing capabilities, Oracle eliminates time-consuming, error-prone administrative tasks, so database administrators can focus on strategic business objectives instead of performance and availability fire drills. The options for Oracle Database Management Packs include: Diagnostic Pack, Provisioning Pack, Tuning Pack, Configuration Management Pack, Change Management Pack.