Oracle Database: Everything You Need to Know

Data flows and data itself are essential elements for the functioning of an organization. Regardless of your activity, information is at the heart of all attention. It must be stored, secured, shared, distributed, merged, analyzed, consolidated, and archived by organization actors on-site, remote, or mobile. To ensure data availability and integrity, it is crucial to implement efficient database management tools that allow all organization actors to interact with local, hosted, or Cloud databases (with Oracle MySQL Database Service).

Among the most effective solutions, the Oracle Database management system has been number 1 for many years. This RDBMS, published by the world-leading company Oracle, offers its users a high level of performance. It is the main converged and multi-model database management system (heterogeneous data format management). It is also the first database management system designed for Grid Computing, a strategy that aggregates the power of many computer terminals instead of investing in supercomputers.

The Advantages of Oracle Database

There are many reasons to choose Oracle Database versions 19c or 21c, but the most obvious are reducing operational costs (administration, securing, maintenance, and support of your databases), using a single database for all types of data, and flexibility, with the ability to deploy Oracle Database locally, in a data center, or on the Cloud. The Oracle Database RDBMS offers significant compatibility with many software and hardware platforms. The different Oracle Database 19c and 21c (Innovation) releases are compatible with Linux systems, Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX and Linux, Windows Server, VMware.

Oracle Database Editions

Oracle Database Personal Edition

This edition, available only in Windows and Linux environments, supports only single-user developments and deployments. It is equipped with the same components as the Enterprise Edition, except for the Oracle Real Application Cluster module.

Oracle Database Express Edition

This entry-level edition is a free version accessible to all. Featuring the same software as higher editions, it is packaged to simplify its download, installation, and use. It is the ideal version to start and discover Oracle Database.

Oracle Database Standard Edition and Standard Edition One

The Standard edition is aimed at small businesses. It is a complete, powerful, and easy-to-use relational database system. It installs on single-server architectures and integrates all the features for developing business applications and interacting with your databases. The One version also includes all the elements for developing critical applications.

Oracle Database Edition Enterprise

The performance, availability, scalability, and security features make it the ideal solution for critical applications, online transaction processing, data warehousing, and intensive query and workload management. It is the most complete Oracle Database version.

The publisher has also developed a package dedicated to managing large volumes of data Oracle Database. It is Oracle Exadata Machine X9M. This solution combines Exadata software (optimization of consolidation, analysis, storage, and replication processes, and knowledge enhancement with Machine Learning) with an Exadata hardware configuration. The latter is available based on customer needs from one-eighth of a rack (64 processor cores, 38 TB of cache, 96 TB of storage), quarter rack, and flex (from 128 processor cores, 4.5 TB of PMEM - persistent memory, 44 TB of flash cache, or 192 TB of storage), multi-rack configuration (performance evolution up to 12 system extension racks and storage capacity)...

Main Oracle Database Tools

Oracle Database operates using the SQL programming language to build the data structure, manage data volumes, and create tasks and queries. It is structured around data storage databases, control files, and a logical storage structure including blocks, logical storage spaces...

The main tools present in Oracle Database solutions are:

• SQL Plus, command line utility,
• Oracle SQL Developer, integrated development environment,
• Oracle Data Modeler, graphical data modeling tool,
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control, graphical database administration tool,
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, software for administration, monitoring, and supervision of Oracle and non-Oracle IT infrastructure...

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