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Oracle Expects Database 11g to Set the Database Bar
By Brian Prince
Database market leader Oracle released its latest database
version, Oracle Database 11g, July 11, and company officials
anointed it the next king of the market.
After more than a year of beta testing and anticipation, Oracle
executives, customers, industry analysts and members of the media packed the
Equitable Auditorium in
"We don't mind defining the road map for them," said Oracle
President Charles Phillips, referring to rivals in the database market and
their reaction to 11g's enhancements.
Among the most highly touted features of 11g are its real
application testing capabilities, which company officials said make it the
first database to help customers test and manage changes to their IT
environment in a controlled, cost-effective manner. 11g also has significant
new data partitioning and compression capabilities. It automates many manual
data partitioning operations and extends existing range, hash and list
partitioning to include interval, reference and virtual columns.
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Oracle Database 11g includes significant performance
enhancements to XML DB, a feature of Oracle database enabling customers to
natively store and manipulate XML data. Company officials said the support for
binary XML was added to offer customers a choice of XML storage options to
match their specific application and performance requirements.
Other features include advanced data compression for both
structured and unstructured data managed in transaction processing, data
warehousing and content management environments. 11g also includes a recovery
feature, Oracle Total Recall, which enables administrators to query data in
designated tables from earlier times in the past.
"These are features that customers have been asking for, in
some cases demanding," said Ari Kaplan, president of the Independent
Oracle Users Group. A survey of IOUG members found 35 percent are planning to
upgrade to 11g in a year, he added.
While Phillips said it was difficult to predict what he called
the "upgrade cycle," he noted that customers adopted Oracle Database
10g faster than many expected.
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