Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Database 12c, the First Database Designed for the Cloud
July 2, 2013: As
organizations embrace the cloud, they seek technologies that will
transform business and improve their overall operational agility and
effectiveness. Oracle Database 12c is a next-generation database
designed to meet these needs, providing a new multitenant architecture
on top of a fast, scalable, reliable, and secure database platform. By
plugging into the cloud with Oracle Database 12c, customers can improve
the quality and performance of applications, save time with maximum
availability architecture and storage management and simplify database
consolidation by managing hundreds of databases as one.
The latest generation of the world’s #1 database, Oracle Database 12c, is available for download from Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Oracle
Database 12c introduces a new multitenant architecture that simplifies
the process of consolidating databases onto the cloud; enabling
customers to manage many databases as one – without changing their
applications.
The
foundation of Oracle Public Cloud Services, Oracle Database 12c can
greatly benefit customers deploying private database clouds and
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors looking for the power of Oracle
Database in a secure multitenant model.
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Database 12c, optimized on SPARC and Intel® Xeon® processors, is a
major release. It introduces 500 additional features and is the result
of 2,500 person-years of development and 1.2 million hours of testing,
plus an extensive beta program with Oracle’s customers and partners.
Oracle Database 12c is also co-engineered with Oracle’s world record
setting SPARC T5 servers. An Oracle Database 12c Webcast featuring SVP Database Server Technologies Andy Mendelsohn and architect Tom Kyte is scheduled for July 10, 2013 at 9:00 am PT.
New Multitenant Architecture for Database Consolidation on the Cloud: Oracle
Database 12c addresses the key challenges of customers who are
consolidating databases in a private cloud model by enabling greatly
improved efficiency and lower management costs, while retaining the
autonomy of separate databases.
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Multitenant is a new feature of Oracle Database 12c, and allows each
database plugged into the new multitenant architecture to look and feel
like a standard Oracle Database to applications; so existing
applications can run unchanged. By supporting multi-tenancy in the
database tier, rather than the application tier, Oracle Multitenant
makes all ISV applications that run on the Oracle Database ready for
SaaS.
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Multitenant manages many databases as one and can increase server
resource utilization and reduce the time and effort required for
database upgrades, backup, recovery, and much more. The multitenant
architecture provides virtually instantaneous provisioning and cloning
of databases, which makes it an ideal platform for database test and
development clouds.
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Multitenant works with all Oracle Database features, including Real
Application Clusters, Partitioning, Data Guard, Compression, Automatic
Storage Management, Real Application Testing, Transparent Data
Encryption, Database Vault, and more.
Automatic Data Optimization: To
help customers efficiently manage more data, lower storage costs and
improve database performance, Oracle Database 12c introduces new
Automatic Data Optimization features. A Heat Map monitors database
read/write activity enabling Database Administrators to easily identify
the data that is hot (very active), warm (read-only) and cold (rarely
read) stored in tables and partitions. Using smart compression and
storage tiering, Database Administrators can easily define server
managed policies to automatically compress and tier OLTP, Data Warehouse
and Archive data based on the activity and age of data.
Defense in Depth Security: Oracle
Database 12c includes more security innovations than any other previous
Oracle database release; helping customers address evolving threats and
stringent data privacy regulations. New Redaction capabilities allow
organizations to protect sensitive data such as credit card numbers
displayed in applications - without changes to most applications.
Sensitive data is redacted at run-time based on pre-defined policies and
account session information.
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Database 12c also includes new Run-Time Privilege Analysis, enabling
organizations to identify privileges and roles actually being used,
helping revoke unnecessary privileges and enforce least privilege with
confidence that business operations will not be disrupted.
Maximum Availability for Database Clouds: Oracle
Database 12c introduces several high availability features, as well as
enhancements to existing technologies that enable continuous access to
enterprise data. Global Data Services offers load balancing and failover
to globally distributed database configurations.
Data
Guard Far Sync extends zero-data-loss standby protection to any
distance – not limited by latency. Application Continuity complements
Oracle Real Application Clusters and masks application failures from
end-users by automatically replaying failed transactions.
Efficient Database Management: Seamless integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control enables
administrators to easily implement and manage new Oracle Database 12c
functionality including the new multitenant architecture and data
redaction.
The
comprehensive testing features of Oracle Real Application Testing can
help customers validate upgrades and consolidation strategies by
concurrently testing and scaling real production workloads.
Simplifying Analysis of Big Data: Oracle
Database 12c enhances in-Database MapReduce capabilities for Big Data
through SQL Pattern Matching that enable immediate and scalable
discovery of business event sequences such as financial transactions,
network logs and clickstream logs.
Data
scientists can better analyze enterprise information and Big Data with
new in-database predictive algorithms and with further integration of
open-source R with Oracle Database 12c.
Supporting Quotes: “The
innovations in Oracle Database 12c were developed with our customers’
cloud requirements very much in mind,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior
vice president, Database Server Technologies, Oracle. “The new
multitenant architecture makes it easier for customers to consolidate
their databases and securely manage many as one. It also offers
customers other capabilities for cloud computing such as simplified
provisioning, cloning and resource prioritization without resorting to
major application changes.”
“Oracle's
User Group Communities actively participated in the development and
testing of Oracle Database 12c,” said Michelle Malcher, President of the
Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG). “We are delighted to see across
the board enhancements, and the new architecture will make it so much
easier for customers to consolidate their databases onto the cloud.”
“A
key challenge facing enterprise data center managers today is the cost,
complexity, and inflexibility represented by the large numbers of
production databases operating in fixed server configurations, most of
which are substantially underutilized,” said Carl Olofson, Research Vice
President for Database Management and Data Integration software
research at IDC. “It is in the nature of most enterprise database server
software that those databases cannot be moved about or redeployed
easily, and attempting to combine them through consolidation raises
other manageability and complexity challenges for database
administrators. Oracle Database 12c offers an elegant solution to this
problem that not only enables deployment flexibility and eases the
administration of multiple databases, but does so in a way that requires
neither changes to applications nor a steep learning curve for DBAs. It
also sets up the data center well for any move in the direction of
Cloud Computing.”
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