Oracle database 12c up for grabs

The latest generation of the Oracle database is now available for download from Oracle Technology Network (OTN), according to official report.

In a press statement made available to DigitalSENSE Business News, endorsed by Claire Alexander, Oracle database 12c introduces a new multitenant architecture that simplifies the process of consolidating databases onto the cloud; enabling customers to manage many databases as one – without changing their applications.

The foundation of Oracle Public Cloud Services, has positioned Oracle Database 12c to greatly benefit customers deploying private database clouds and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors looking for the power of Oracle Database in a secure multitenant model.

“Oracle Database 12c, optimized on SPARC and Intel Xeon processors, is a major release. It introduces 500 additional features and is the result of 2,500 person-years of development and 1.2 million hours of testing, plus an extensive beta program with Oracle’s customers and partners,” she said.

Adding that Oracle Database 12c is also co-engineered with Oracle’s world record setting SPARC T5 servers; explaining that an Oracle Database 12c webcast features SVP Database Server Technologies Andy Mendelsohn and architect Tom Kyte is scheduled for July 10, 2013.

On the new Multitenant Architecture for Database Consolidation on the Cloud, she said, Oracle Database 12c addresses the key challenges of customers who are consolidating databases in a private cloud model by enabling greatly improved efficiency and lower management costs, while retaining the autonomy of separate databases.

She further explained that Oracle Multitenant is a new feature of Oracle Database 12c, and allows each database plugged into the new multitenant architecture to look and feel like a standard Oracle Database to applications; so existing applications can run unchanged.

“By supporting multi-tenancy in the database tier, rather than the application tier, Oracle Multitenant makes all Independent Software Vendor (ISV) applications that run on the Oracle Database ready for SaaS,” she said.

On automatic data optimization, she said, it was developed to help customers efficiently manage more data, lower storage costs and improve database performance, just as Oracle Database 12c has introduced new features.

“A Heat Map monitors database read/write activity enabling Database Administrators to easily identify the data that is hot (very active), warm (read-only) and cold (rarely read) stored in tables and partitions,” she said.

Emphasising that by using smart compression and storage tiering, database administrators could easily define server managed policies to automatically compress and tier Online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehouse and archive data based on the activity and age of data.

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