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…What is the Oracle Database?
Very scalable
- Single processor PC to MPP and mainframes
Very portable
- Support for 90 + platforms
- Code base is same for all platforms
Many add-on features for “specialized” needs
- Data Warehouse (CUBE, ROLLUP)
- OLAP (Analytic functions such as DENSE_RANK)
- Much more…
Notes:
The Oracle database is very scalable. Oracle applications can scale from a mobile computing device to a massively parallel system running the new Oracle9i feature Real Application Clusters (formerly called Oracle Parallel Server).
Since the code base is the same across all platforms, applications written on one Oracle platform are easily ported to another platform. Oracle is provided on over 90 hardware/software platforms including Unix, Linux, Windows, and mainframe.
Oracle Corp has bundled many built-in and optional (extra cost) features that extend the usability of the database into specialized areas such as Data Warehousing and OLAP.