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Data Manag ement
Oracle rose to prominence on the back of its Oracle RDBMS (relational
database management system). All of the products on the left side of
Figure 6.1 are related in some way to Oracle's primary database product.
With each release of its database, Oracle extended the database's capa-
bilities to integrate with current technology trends at that time. In 2004,
Oracle Corporation shipped release 10g ( g standing for grid ) as the then-
latest version of Oracle Database. Oracle Application Server 10g using
Java EE integrates with the server part of that version of the database,
making it possible to deploy web technology applications. The applica-
tion server comprises the first middle-tier software designed for grid
computing. The interrelationship between Oracle 10g and Java allows
developers to set up stored procedures written in the Java language as
well as those written in the traditional Oracle database programming
language, PL/SQL.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 is the database version most widely avail-
able since September 2009. This version is available in four commercial
editions—Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard Edition One,
Personal Edition—and one free edition, the Express Edition. The licensing
of these editions shows various restrictions and obligations and is com-
plex. The Enterprise Edition (DB EE)—the most expensive of the data-
base editions—has the least restrictions but nevertheless has a complex
licensing. The Standard Edition (DB SE) and Standard Edition One (SE1)
are constrained by more licensing restrictions, which reflects their lower
price. In summer 2013, Oracle released 12c (the c designating the cloud ).
Table 6.1 summarizes these offerings.
On the right side of Figure 6.1 you'll note that the following are additional
database technologies that have been acquired and developed by Oracle:
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