10 Things CIOs Should Know About The World’s First Cloud Database
August 7, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: John Foley.
When CEO Larry Ellison introduced Oracle Database 12c at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco last September, he described it as a new foundation for modern cloud applications. That sums up Oracle Database 12c perfectly. First and foremost, it’s a platform for cloud computing, as signified by the “c” in its moniker. If there were just one single thing you should know about Oracle Database 12c, that would be it.
Wrapped up in that big idea are hundreds of database improvements. In fact, there are more than 500 new features in Oracle Database 12c, which together bring new levels of efficiency, scalability, and security to Oracle’s market-leading database management system…
Oracle Vice President Tom Kyte drafted a list of 80 of Oracle Database 12c’s biggest improvements, then went a step further and condensed those to a dozen of his favorites. Tom’s choices are roll-up-your-sleeves stuff: improved defaults, increased size limits for certain data types, and easier pagination queries, for example. See Tom’s excellent “Top 12 Features” (video) for a nuts-and-bolts overview of what makes Oracle Database 12c such a breakthrough product…
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