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Oracle releases next database
New version is significant upgrade from Oracle 10g platform,
and has over 400 new features.
Oracle has released the next version of
its flagship database management system, Oracle 11g. The company claims the new
version of the software is a significant upgrade from the Oracle 10g platform,
and has over 400 new features.
"Our customers are facing the challenges of rapid data
growth, increased data integration and data connectivity IT cost
pressures," said Andy Mendelsohn, Oracle senior vice president of database
server technologies, in a statement. "Oracle Database 11g delivers the key
features our customers have asked for."
Among the new features are:
- Oracle Data Guard, which allows a stand-by
database to be read and written to, making it available for additional
duties such as reporting and live use during the periods when the main
database is being upgraded.
- Automated data partitioning, for speeding up the
provisioning process.
- Enhanced compression capabilities that can reduce
database sizes, for both structured and unstructured data.
- Querying of past states of the database, allowing
administrators to query older versions of database tables that have subsequently
updated.
- Hot patching, or the ability to patch a database
while it remains running.
- Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Database Vault, a
set of features that permits users to enter data in specialized areas not
accessible by database administrators or other outside parties.
Ari
Kaplan, president at the Independent Oracle Users Group, said he felt most
excited about the vault features, noting that no other commercial database has
this capability. The IOUG, a global organization of Oracle users, offered input
when Oracle designed the upgrade.
Oracle 11g will be made available later this summer for Linux
clients, though no word has been given yet when it will be available for
Microsoft Windows platforms.
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