Oracle’s Real Application Clusters (RAC) option supports the transparent deployment of a single database across a cluster of hardware servers, providing fault tolerance from hardware failures or planned outages. ORACLE DATABASE 10G ENTERPRISE EDITION Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition is ideal for enterprises that need to support high volume on-line transaction processing and query intensive data warehousing applications.

Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition is available on all Oracle’s supported operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Unix, and is supported on all hardware configurations, from small single processor machines to high-end SMP environments.

Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition supports all standard relational data types, as well as native storage of XML, Text, Documents, Images, Audio, Video and Location data. Access to data stored is via standard interfaces such as SQL, JDBC, SQLJ, ODBC, OLE DB and ODP.NET, SQL/XML, XQuery, and WebDAV. Business logic deployed in the database can be written in both Java and PL/SQL.

Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition supports distributed queries and transactions between two or more databases, and includes built-in support for connecting via ODBC to common 3rd party databases.

For demanding online transaction processing environments, Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition supports deployments of large numbers of users by utilizing unique row level locking and multi-version read consistency, allowing an application to quickly and easily scale from tens to tens of thousands of online users. For Business Intelligence, Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition provides built-in analytical, statistical and modeling capabilities which may be directly accessed from any SQL based environment.

 

Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition provides unique capabilities to ensure the availability of your mission critical applications. Oracle’s Real Application Clusters (RAC) option supports the transparent deployment of a single database across a cluster of hardware servers, providing fault tolerance from hardware failures or planned outages.

Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition also builds-in unique Fast-Start Fault Recovery technology that automatically bounds database crash recovery to a number of seconds, making recovery time fast and predictable, and improving your ability to meet availability service level objectives.

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 introduces Fast-Start Failover for rapid and automatic failover to standby databases, without requiring manual intervention. Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition supports rolling upgrades of database and operating system patches and releases, enabling true 24x7 operations for your enterprise.

The Oracle Database provides the strongest security available in the industry today. Over the past decade Oracle has successfully completed 17 independent security evaluations. Data consolidation, privacy requirements and government regulations

Such as HIPAA require sophisticated security features. Oracle Database 10g Release 2 delivers industry leading security features such as fine grained/row level security, column security, fine-grained auditing, data encryption, key management, proxy authentication, application context and secures application roles. These are in addition to commonplace security features such as auditing, password complexity checks, database roles, stored procedures and functions.

Oracle Advanced Security protects privacy and confidentiality of data over the network by addressing data sniffing, data loss, replay and person-in-the-middle attacks. All communication with an Oracle Database can be encrypted with Oracle Advanced Security. Oracle Advanced Security also provides strong authentication solutions for Oracle Database 10g. Oracle Label Security provides an ideal solution for customers who need to protect private or sensitive information. Based on multilevel security technology, Oracle Label Security restricts access to data using sensitivity labels and security clearances.

For enterprise wide management, user accounts and authorizations can be managed centrally with Oracle Database 10g enterprise user security and Oracle Identity Management, eliminating the need for individual database user schemes and making it easy to manage user authorizations across an entire organization.

Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition provides a very quick install on all environments. Out of the box, your database is pre-configured for production usage, complete with automated space, storage and memory management, automatic backup and recovery, and automatic optimizer statistics management.

The built-in Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control console provides a web-based interface that shows at a glance, the status of your database and cluster environment, and allows database administration actions from any browser connected to your system.

Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition with Oracle Real Application Clusters option also takes full advantage of Oracle’s built-in clusterware solution, removing the complexity of having to install and configure third-party clusterware. The automatic storage management capabilities efficiently stripe the data stored across the available disks, ensuring optimal performance, and removing the need for third-party volume managers or cluster file systems.

Grid Computing is the coordinated use of a large number of low-cost servers and storage devices acting as one shared computer resource. As the first database designed for the Grid, Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition allows you to adopt Grid Computing in three easy steps, with minimal investment, zero disruption, and fast return on investment:

Through standardization on low-cost servers and storage, Via dynamic provisioning of all your databases and application servers By the end-to-end automation of day-to-day management tasks, allowing a single administrator to simultaneously handle hundreds of servers