Data Management - The CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions - page 172

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The Oracle 12c Environment
Product Overview Features

Database
Appliance

The Oracle Database
Appliance enables you to
take advantage of the
world's most popular
database (Oracle
Database) in a single,
easy-to-deploy and
-manage system now
supporting virtualization.
It's a complete package of
sotware, server, storage,
and networking that's
engineered for simplicity,
saving time and money by
simplifying deployment,
maintenance, and support
of database and application
workloads.

• A fully integrated and redundant
system of software, servers, storage,
and networking in a single box that
delivers high-availability database
services for a wide range of
homegrown and packaged online
transaction processing (OLTP) and
data warehousing applications.
• Saves up to 2,000 hours of labor
over a three-year period with
simple deployment, maintenance,
and support of database workloads,
all supported by a single
vendor—Oracle.
• Capacity On-Demand software
licensing allows you to quickly scale
from 2 processor cores to 48
processor cores without incurring
the costs and downtime usually
associated with hardware upgrades.
• Allows businesses to consolidate
OLTP and data warehousing
databases up to 18 terabytes in size,
making it ideal for midsize
companies and departmental
systems.
• Virtualization support enables
customers to quickly deploy
complete, highly available solution
appliances to remote branch-office
locations.

terabytes, on a wide variety of operating systems including most Unix-
like and Windows systems as well as real-time operating systems. Berkeley
DB is also used as the common name for three distinct products; Oracle
Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB Java Edition, and Berkeley DB XML. Starting
with the 6.0/12c releases, all Berkeley DB products are licensed under the
GNU AGPL. The product ships with complete source code, build script,
test suite, and documentation. The code quality and general utility along
with the licensing terms have led to its use in a multitude of free and open-
source software. Those who do not wish to abide by the terms of the GNU