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analytics, and unstructured data in the form of XML files, office documents, images, video, spatial and other
specialized forms of data such as human genomic and medical data. Oracle Database software is used for a
variety of purposes, including online transaction processing applications, data warehousing and business
intelligence, as a document repository or specialized data store. Oracle Database is popular for both packaged
applications and custom application development.
Oracle Database software is available in four editions: Express Edition, Standard Edition One, Standard Edition
and Enterprise Edition. All editions are built using the same underlying code, which means that our database
software can scale from small, single processor servers to clusters of multi-processor servers and our Oracle
Exadata Database Machines.
A number of optional add-on products are available with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition software to address
specific customer requirements in the areas of performance and scalability, high availability, data security and
compliance, data warehousing, information management and systems management. Examples of these products
include:
• Oracle Real Application Clusters software, which is designed to enable any Oracle Database
application to share more efficiently the processing power and memory capacity of a fault tolerant
cluster of servers;
• Oracle Advanced Compression software, which is designed to enable customers to reduce the amount
of disk space required to store all their business information and improve query performance;
• Oracle Partitioning software, which is designed to break down large database tables into smaller
segments for faster query performance and easier management of data throughout its lifecycle;
• Oracle Database security software, which is designed to encrypt data on disk and networks (Oracle
Advanced Security), provide a first line of defense from database attacks (Database Firewall) and
protect data when it is archived to both disk and tape (Secure Backup);
• Oracle Database Vault software, which is designed to pro-actively safeguard application data stored in
Oracle Database from being accessed by system administrators and other privileged database users to
meet regulatory mandates and improve data security;
• Oracle Audit Vault software, which is designed to reduce the cost and complexity of compliance
reporting and detection of unauthorized activities by automating the collection, consolidation and
analysis of enterprise audit data;
• Oracle Active Data Guard software, which is designed to improve database performance and reliability
by offloading resource-intensive activities from a production database to one or more synchronized
standby databases;
• Oracle Spatial software, which is designed to manage geospatial data and provide the facilities to
location enable business applications with advanced geographic information system (GIS) capabilities;
and
• Oracle In-Memory Database Cache software, which is designed to improve application performance by
caching or storing critical parts of Oracle Database in the main memory of the application tier.
In addition to the four editions of Oracle Database, we also offer a portfolio of specialized database software
products to address particular customer requirements including:
• MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database, which is a simple-to-use, relational database
often used to power high volume applications such as websites and web-based applications;
• Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a memory-optimized, relational database that is
designed to deliver low latency and high throughput for applications requiring real-time performance in
industries such as communications, financial services and defense; and
• Oracle Berkeley DB, which is a family of open source; embeddable; relational, XML and key-value
(NoSQL) databases that is designed to allow developers to incorporate a fast, scalable and reliable
database engine within their applications and devices.
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