Oracle accelerates database and cloud strategy

Grazed from CloudComputingNews. Author: Tim Jennings.

Oracle’s September 2013 customer event was notable for a series of announcements designed to help the company’s customers improve the speed and agility of their information systems. The flagship news revolved around Oracle’s core competence of database technology, with forthcoming releases of an in-memory option for Oracle Database 12c that promises to significantly speed up analytic queries, and of an enterprise-grade Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering, part of the Oracle Public Cloud. The latter is reaching a new level of maturity, assisted by the acquisition earlier in 2013 of cloud infrastructure specialist Nimbula.

One of the dominant themes of the conference was machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), and here Oracle is positioning its Java technology as an end-to-end platform for solution development. It also announced an upcoming new version of its Java as a Service offering, which again provides enterprise-grade development capabilities in the Oracle Public Cloud. These headlines were further supported by new engineered systems for in-memory computing and for database backup, and by good progress across many areas of the product portfolio…

In-memory database goes mainstream

Building on the recent launch of Oracle Database 12c, including its features for multi-tenancy, Oracle announced a new in-memory option for its flagship database. This augments the traditional row-based storage of data with a column-based store that is created entirely in-memory, either on database load or on first use. This in-memory column store dramatically accelerates analytical queries, with Oracle claiming and demonstrating up to 100× speed improvement for some queries…

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