ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – September 23, 2013
News Summary
Discovering meaningful insight from a mountain of information is the core Big Data challenge. The new Oracle Database In-Memory Option to Oracle Database 12c dramatically accelerates database performance enabling new business insights, real-time decision making, and much faster online transaction processing response times without changes to existing applications. Using the Oracle Database In-Memory Option, decades of IT investments become immediately more valuable.
News Facts
- Oracle today announced the Oracle Database In-Memory option to help customers accelerate database performance for analytics, data warehousing, reporting and online transaction processing (OLTP). Oracle’s unique in-memory optimizations enable real-time ad-hoc analytics on live transactional data while also accelerating OLTP.
- Every application that runs on Oracle Database 12c can automatically and transparently take advantage of Oracle Database In-Memory Option. Existing applications will retain full functionality while experiencing effortless speedups. New applications can be developed that were previously impractical due to performance limitations.
- All of Oracle Database’s leading reliability, scalability, availability and security technologies work transparently with Oracle Database In-Memory Option, bringing Oracle’s mature technologies developed over decades of joint work with thousands of leading banks, telecoms and e-commerce sites to in-memory computing.
- Oracle’s unique “dual-format” approach enables real-time ad-hoc analytics on live transactional data while also accelerating OLTP. Data is maintained in both the existing Oracle row format, and a new purely in-memory column format optimized for analytical processing. Both formats are simultaneously active and transactionally consistent. The Oracle database automatically uses the new in-memory column format for analytic queries and the existing row format for OLTP operations.
- The new in-memory columnar format eliminates the need for expensive to maintain analytic indexes and therefore greatly accelerates OLTP operations.
- Oracle Database In-Memory Option simplifies development and management and lowers costs by eliminating the need for separate databases and data structures that have traditionally been required to achieve good analytic performance.