Oracle Database 12c is available in choice of editions that can easily scale from small to large single servers and clusters of servers. AgileTS implement and sell both editions of the database and most of the Enterprise Edition Options. Several Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition only options are available for specific business and IT requirements. This page provides a high-level introduction to all Oracle Database 12c options, Industry-specific Data Models, Enterprise Data Management tools, Engineered Systems and products. There are two editions of Oracle Database 12c:
» Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition 2 delivers unprecedented ease-of-use, power, and price/performance for database applications on servers that have a maximum capacity of two sockets.
» Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition is available on single and clustered servers with no socket limitation. It provides efficient, reliable and secure data management for mission-critical transactional applications, query-intensive big data warehouses, and mixed workloads.
Both editions of Oracle Database 12c are built using the same code base, are available on a choice of operating systems and include a common set of application development tools and programming interfaces. Customers can start out with Standard Edition 2, and as business grows or depending on changing requirements, easily upgrade to Enterprise Edition. It's simple to upgrade; no application changes are required to get the performance, scalability, reliability, security and manageability for which Oracle is renowned.
Oracle Active Data Guard
Oracle Active Data Guard enables read-only access to a physical standby database for queries, reporting, web- based access, etc., while continuously applying changes received from a production database. Oracle Active Data Guard now includes Global Data Services, Far Sync, Fast Sync, Real-time cascading, and DML on Global Temporary Tables. No changes to the production database are lost during testing. Oracle Active Data Guard also enables the use of fast incremental backups when offloading backups to a standby database.
Oracle Advanced Analytics
Oracle Advanced Analytics empowers data and business analysts to extract knowledge, discover new insights and make predictions—working directly with large data volumes in Oracle Database. It provides a comprehensive advanced analytics platform through a combination of powerful in-database algorithms and open source R algorithms. Analytic capabilities are accessible via SQL and R languages, and through the SQL Developer extension or open-source R clients. Together, these features enhance Oracle Database 12c with a range of analytical functionality for data mining, text mining and predictive analytics, summary and descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis and graphics, comparative statistics, correlations and other advanced numerical computations.
Oracle Advanced Compression
Oracle Advanced Compression manages growing amounts of data in a cost effective manner. Oracle Database 12c introduces a new Heat Map feature that monitors data access, providing insight into how data is accessed. A new Automatic Data Optimization feature policies to trigger automatic movement of tables, partitions, and entire tablespaces across different storage and compression tiers over time. Advanced Compression enables efficient use of storage resources to lower costs.
Oracle Advanced Security
Oracle Advanced Security helps customers protect sensitive information and comply with various privacy and compliance regulations including breach notification laws and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) by enabling encryption inside the database that is transparent to applications and enabling redaction of sensitive data before it leaves the database. Transparent Data Encryption provides encryption of data stored in the database, exported from the database using DataPump, or disk-based backups using Oracle RMAN. Data Redaction is with the release of Oracle Database 12c and provides the ability to redact sensitive information such as credit card data and social security numbers displayed by queries and applications.
Oracle Database In-Memory
Oracle Database In-Memory transparently extends the power of Oracle Database 12c to enable organizations to discover business insights in real-time while simultaneously improving transactional performance. Oracle Database In-Memory delivers leading-edge in-memory performance without the need to restrict functionality or accept compromises, complexity and risk. Deploying Oracle Database In-Memory with virtually any existing Oracle Database compatible application is as easy as flipping a switch--no application changes are required. It is fully integrated with Oracle Database's scale-up, scale-out, storage tiering, availability and security technologies making it the most industrial-strength offering in the industry.
Oracle Database Vault
Oracle Database Vault helps customers increase the security of existing applications and address regulatory mandates that call for separation-of-duties, least privilege and other preventive controls to ensure data integrity and data privacy. It proactively protects application data stored in Oracle Database from being accessed by privileged database users. Oracle Database Vault controls who, when, and where database and application data can be accessed—helping protect businesses against the most common security threats that target privileged user accounts or attempt to bypass application security. Enforcing separation of duties, even among administrators, Oracle Database Vault additionally serves as a powerful preventive control to help comply with today's stringent compliance and privacy requirements.
Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache
Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache (TimesTen Cache) can improve application transaction response times and throughput by caching performance-critical subsets of an Oracle Database in the application tier. The TimesTen Cache option of Oracle Database 12c brings ‘hot’ data closer to applications by processing SQL transactions at memory speed and off-loading the data processing to middle tier resources. With Oracle Database 12c, the ability to transparently deploy TimesTen Cache with existing Oracle database applications becomes much easier – with common data types, SQL and PL/SQL support, and native support for the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), JDBC, ODP.NET, and ODBC.
Oracle Label Security
Oracle Label Security adds extensive protection for sensitive information. This option employs labeling concepts used by government, defense, and commercial organizations to protect sensitive information and provide data separation. 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 Label Security can be combined with Virtual Private Database, Secure Application Roles, and Oracle Database Vault to provide powerful solutions for protecting personally identifiable information.
Oracle Multitenant
Oracle Multitenant introduces a new architecture in Oracle Database 12c that delivers the highest level of database consolidation, without changes to existing applications. Oracle Multitenant addresses historical DBA pain points: provisioning, patching, and consolidation. This new architecture makes it easy to create a container database and simply plug-in multiple databases working seamlessly with existing Oracle Database functionality as Real Application Clusters and Active Data Guard. In addition, Oracle Multitenant helps reduce IT costs and provide the ability to manage many databases as one, while retaining the isolation of separate databases, without requiring any changes to applications or access rights.
Oracle On-line Analytical Processing
Oracle OLAP delivers advanced multidimensional analytic capabilities within Oracle Database 12c. It’s designed to provide excellent query performance, fast incremental updates of data sets, efficient management of summary data, and rich analytic content. The Oracle OLAP option is a full-featured on-line analytical processing (OLAP) server embedded within the Oracle Database. It can be used to improve SQL-based business intelligence tools and applications by improving query performance and enriching them with analytic content. As an OLAP solution that is deeply embedded in Oracle Database 12c, Oracle OLAP enables centralized management of data and business rules in a secure, scalable and enterprise-ready platform.
Oracle Partitioning
Oracle Partitioning enhances the data management environment for OLTP, data marts, and data warehouse applications by adding significant manageability, availability, and performance capabilities to large underlying database tables and indexes. It permits large tables to be broken into individually managed smaller pieces, while retaining a single application-level view of the data. A comprehensive variety of partitioning methods are supported including, the ability to allow very large tables (and their associated indexes) to be partitioned into smaller, more manageable units, providing a “divide and conquer” approach to very large database management. Partitioning also improves performance, as the optimizer will prune queries to only use the relevant partitions of a table or index in a lookup. Oracle Partitioning can also manage the lifecycle of information, eliminating the need to continually buy high- end storage confining data growth to a scalable, low-end storage solution.
Oracle Real Application Clusters
Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) harnesses the processing power of multiple, interconnected servers on a cluster. It enables access to a single database from multiple servers on a cluster, insulating both applications and database users from server failures, while providing performance that scales out on-demand at low cost. Oracle RAC is a vital component for delivering agile database services on the Cloud. Oracle Database 12c along with Automated Storage Management (ASM) and Oracle Clusterware, further helps virtualize storage, database servers, and all the other aspects related to deploying and managing database services in a Cloud environment.
Oracle RAC One Node
Oracle RAC One Node is the one-node version of Oracle Real Application Clusters. It enables customers to take advantage of clustering in an active-passive configuration. Oracle RAC One Node makes the database highly available in the presence of computer hardware failures, software failures, or planned software maintenance events. In the event of failures, the database instance is restarted on another server in the cluster and the client connections are moved to the new instance. Oracle RAC One Node can also be online upgraded to full active-active Oracle RAC configuration in order to scale to multiple servers.
Oracle Real Application Testing
Agile businesses want to be able to quickly adopt new technologies, whether it's operating systems, servers, or software, to help them stay ahead of the competition. However, change often introduces a period of instability into mission-critical IT systems. Oracle Real Application Testing enables organizations to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change. It combines a workload capture and replay feature with an SQL performance analyzer to help test changes against real-life workloads, for fine-tuning before moving into production.
Oracle Spatial and Graph
Providing advanced features for spatial data management and analysis as well as graphs for physical, network, and social and linked data applications. Its geospatial data features are designed to support the most complex requirements found in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), enterprise applications and location services applications. Oracle Spatial and Graph extends the Locator spatial query and analysis features in Oracle Database 12c with more advanced spatial analysis and processing capabilities.
Enterprise Management for Oracle Database 12c
Oracle Enterprise Manager provides an integrated set of management tools (known as ‘packs’) for managing Oracle Database 12c and previous releases, with a unique top-down application management approach. With self- managing capabilities, Oracle eliminates many time-consuming, error-prone administrative tasks, allowing database administrators to focus on strategic business objectives instead of performance and availability fire drills.
Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database
The Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database helps to set up a Database Cloud and operate Database as a Service models. Some of the features provided by this pack include:
» Self-service database provisioning on physical infrastructure
» Support for both single instance and Real Application Clusters configurations
» Policy-driven resource management, such as scale out and scale back of compute power » Metering and chargeback based on fixed cost and utilization metrics
» Programmatic access to the Self-Service Portal
Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack
Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager helps organizations comply with data privacy and protection mandates that restrict the use of actual customer data. With Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack, sensitive information such as credit card or social security numbers can be replaced with realistic values, allowing production data to be safely used for nonproduction purposes.
Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database
The Database Lifecycle Management Pack is a comprehensive solution that helps database, system and application administrators automate the processes required to manage the Oracle Database Lifecycle. It eliminates manual and time consuming tasks related to discovery, initial provisioning, patching, configuration management, ongoing change management and Disaster protection automation. In addition the Database Lifecycle Management pack provides compliance frameworks for reporting and management of industry and regulatory compliance standards.
Oracle Diagnostic Pack
The Oracle Diagnostic Pack provides automatic performance diagnostic and advanced system monitoring functionality. The Diagnostic Pack includes the following features: Automatic Workload Repository; Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM); Performance monitoring (database and host); Event notifications: notification methods, rules, and schedules; and Event history and metric history (database and host).
Oracle Tuning Pack
The Oracle Tuning Pack provides database administrators with expert performance management for the Oracle environment, including SQL tuning and storage optimizations. It includes the following features:
» SQL Access Advisor » SQL Tuning Advisor » SQL Tuning Sets
» Reorganize objects
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