Oracle Database Options
Oracle offers a wide range of options to extend the power of Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition to meet specific requirements in the areas of; performance, availability, security, 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.
- Oracle Partitioning - Partition for Improved Performance. Partitioning 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 any two methods.
- Oracle Real Application Testing - Reduce Testing Efforts by Up to 80 Percent. Oracle Real Application Testing combines a workload capture and replay feature with an SQL performance analyzer to help you test changes against real-life workloads and then helps you fine-tune the changes before putting them into production.
- Oracle Data Guard - Oracle Data Guard provides the management, monitoring and automation software infrastructure to create and maintain one or more remote standby databases to protect Oracle data from failures, disasters, errors and data corruptions.
- Oracle Real Application Clusters - Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, enables a single database to run across a cluster of servers, providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance and scalability with no application changes necessary.
- Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node (Oracle RAC One Node) is a one-node version of Oracle RAC, that enables customers to standardise on a single deployment model for all their database needs. It offers far greater benefits than traditional server virtualisation to single instance databases running on a hardware cluster. You can now consolidate multiple databases into a single cluster with minimal overhead, while providing the high availability benefits of fail over protection, rolling upgrades and more.
- Oracle Database Vault - Oracle Database Vault helps organisations address regulatory mandates and increase the security of existing applications. Regulations such as; Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) all call for the separation-of-duties together with other preventive controls to ensure data integrity and data privacy. With the Oracle Database Vault, organisations can pro-actively safeguard application data stored in the Oracle database from being accessed by privileged database users.
- Oracle Advanced Compression - Oracle Advanced Compression and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 helps manage more data in a cost-effective manner. With data volumes, on average, tripling every two years, Oracle Advanced Compression delivers compression rates of 2-4x across all types of data and applications. Storage savings from compression will cascade throughout the data centre, reducing network traffic and data backups as well. In addition by reading fewer blocks off disk, Oracle Advanced Compression also improves query performance.
- Oracle Management Packs - Oracle Management Packs provide unparalleled management capabilities. The suite of Management Packs deliver industry-leading automation, enabling administrators to focus on strategic business objectives instead of reactive fire fighting.
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