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Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply as Oracle) is a proprietarymulti-model database^[4] management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.

It is a database commonly used for running online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW) and mixed (OLTP & DW) database workloads. The latest generation, Oracle Database 19c, is available on-prem, on-Cloud, or in a hybrid-Cloud environment. 19c may also be deployed on Oracle Engineered Systems (e.g. Exadata) on-prem, on Oracle (public) Cloud or (private) Cloud at Customer.^[5] At Openworld 2017 in San Francisco, Executive Chairman of the Board and CTO, Larry Ellison announced the next database generation, Oracle Autonomous Database.^[6]

• 1History
• 2Oracle Database deployment
• 3Database options and features
  • 3.4Tools
• 4Use
• 5Market position
  • 5.2Pricing
• 6Physical and logical structures
  • 6.1Storage
  • 6.2Database schema
  • 6.3Process architectures
• 7Administration

History[edit]

Larry Ellison and his two friends and former co-workers, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, started a consultancy called Software Development Laboratories (SDL) in 1977. SDL developed the original version of the Oracle software. The name Oracle comes from the code-name of a CIA-funded project Ellison had worked on while formerly employed by Ampex.^[7]

Releases and versions[edit]

Oracle products follow a custom release-numbering and -naming convention. The 'c' in the current release, Oracle Database 19c, stands for 'Cloud'. Previous releases (e.g. Oracle Database 10g and Oracle9i Database) have used suffixes of 'g' and 'i' which stand for 'Grid' and 'Internet' respectively. Prior to the release of Oracle8i Database, no suffixes featured in Oracle Database naming conventions. Note that there was no v1 of Oracle Database, as Larry Ellison, 'knew no one would want to buy version 1'.^[8]Oracle's RDBMS release numbering has used the following codes:

The Oracle Database Administrators Guide includes a brief history on some of the key innovations introduced with each major release of Oracle Database.

Patch updates and security alerts[edit]

Oracle Corporation releases Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) or Security Patch Updates (SPUs)^[12]and Security Alerts to close security holes that could be used for data theft. Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) and Security Alerts come out quarterly on the Tuesday closest to 17th day of the month.

• Customers may receive release notification by email.
• White Paper: Critical Patch Update Implementation Best Practices

Oracle Database deployment[edit]

Oracle Database may be licensed and deployed on-premises on a choice of platforms including Oracle Engineered Systems, and on-Cloud with a choice of services running on general purpose hardware or Exadata. The various editions and Cloud services provide different levels of database functionality for difference use cases (e.g. dev/test, departmental and non-critical apps, mission-critical workloads) with different levels of performance, availability, etc. service levels.

• Oracle Database Cloud Services: for on-Cloud and Cloud at Customer deployments
• Oracle Database editions: mainly for on-prem deployments
• Engineered systems such as Oracle Exadata specifically built for Oracle Database deployment (on-prem, on-Cloud, Cloud at Customer)

Database Cloud Services[edit]

Oracle Corporation provides a range of database cloud services on its Oracle Cloud platform that are designed for different database use cases; from test/dev deployments to small and medium sized workloads to large mission-critical workloads. Oracle Database Cloud Services are available on a choice of general purpose hardware and Exadata engineered systems, in either virtual machines environments or 'bare metal' infrastructure (now known as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).^[13]

Database editions[edit]

As of 2017, the latest Oracle Database version (12.2.0.1) comes in three editions for on-premises deployments^[14]:

• Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE): offers industry-leading scalability and reliability^{[citation needed]} in both clustered and single system configurations and imposes no limitation on server resources available to the database.
• Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2): intended for small- to medium-sized implementations, SE2 includes Real Application Clusters and may be deployed on servers or clusters with a maximum of 2 sockets total and capped to use a maximum of 16 concurrent user threads. SE2 uses the same code base as EE, and therefore upwardly compatible and simple to upgrade to EE.
• Oracle Database Personal Edition (PE): A single-user, single-machine development and deployment license that allows use of all database features. PE is upwardly compatible to SE2 and EE.

Oracle Corporation also makes the following edition available:

• Oracle Database Express Edition (XE), a free-to-use entry-level version of Oracle Database available for Windows and Linux platforms. The current version, Oracle Database 18c XE is automatically resource limited up to 2 CPUs, up to 2 GB of RAM and storing up to 12 GB of user data. It provides a subset of EE functionality (not including features such as managed backup and recovery, high availability and replication), is community-supported and comes with its own license terms. XE was first introduced in 2005 with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 with a limitation to a maximum of 1 CPU, 1 GB of RAM and 4 GB of user data. Oracle Database 11g XE was released on 24 September 2011, and increased user data capacity to 11 GB. Oracle Database 18c XE was released on the 20th of October 2018^[15], increasing capacity to 2 CPUs, 2 GB of RAM and 12 GB of user data.

Up to (and including) Oracle Database 12c release 12.1.0.1, Oracle also offered the following:

• Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE) for single or clustered servers with a maximum capacity of 4 CPU sockets. It was largely the same as the current SE2 edition and included Real Application Clusters for use on server clusters with a maximum of 4 CPU sockets.
• Oracle Standard Edition One (SE1), was first introduced with Oracle Database 10g. It offered the same features as SE and was licensed to run on single servers with a maximum of 2 CPU sockets.

Oracle Corporation discontinued SE and SE1 with the 12.1.0.2 release, and stopped offering new licenses for these editions on December 1, 2015.

Supported platforms[edit]

Oracle Database 12c is supported on the following OS and architecture combinations:

• Linux on x86-64 (only Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux and SUSE distributions are supported^[16])
• Microsoft Windows on x86-64
• Oracle Solaris on SPARC and x86-64
• IBM AIX on POWER Systems
• HP-UX on Itanium

In 2008, Oracle Corporation announced the availability of Oracle Exadata Database Machine (V1), the first generation of Engineered Systems specifically designed for Oracle Database workloads.

In 2011, Oracle Corporation announced the availability of Oracle Database Appliance, a pre-built, pre-tuned, highly available clustered database server built using two SunFire X86 servers and direct attached storage.

Some Oracle Enterprise Edition databases running on certain Oracle-supplied hardware can use Hybrid Columnar Compression for more efficient storage.^[17]

Database options and features[edit]

Database options[edit]

The Oracle Database offers a wide range of options^[18] and features in the areas of Availability, Scalability, Analytics, Performance, Security, Management, Developers and Integration. These aim to enhance and complement existing database functionality to meet customer-specific requirements.^[19] All Database Options are only available for Enterprise Edition and offered for an extra cost.^[18][20] An exception to these two rules is Oracle Real Application Clusters option, which comes included with Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition 2 at no additional cost.^[21]

Availability

• Oracle Active Data Guard extends Oracle Data Guard functionality with advanced features, allowing read-only access to data in a physical standby database to offload primary of such tasks as reporting, ad-hoc queries, data extraction and backup, offloading redo transport and minimizing standby impact on commit response times (using Far Sync feature), providing option for rolling upgrades for non-RAC customers, managing clients workload across replicated database and improving automated service failover (using Global Data Services), etc.

Scalability

• Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is the computer cluster version of Oracle Database.
• Oracle RAC One Node is a one-node version of Oracle Real Application Clusters, providing capabilities for database failover and high availability in the form of rolling upgrades, online instance migration, application continuity and automated quality of service management.

Analytics

• Oracle Advanced Analytics allows access to in-database data mining algorithms and use of Oracle R Enterprise functionality, an integration with open-source R statistical programming language and environment.
• Oracle Partitioning allows partitioning of tables and indices, where large objects are stored in database as a collection of individual smaller pieces at the same time appearing on application level as a uniform data object.
• Oracle On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is Oracle implementation of online analytical processing.
• Oracle data models: pre-built data models with database analytics and business intelligence capabilities for specific industries including
  • Retail Data Model
  • Communications Data Model
  • Airlines Data Model
  • Utilities Data Model

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Performance

• Oracle Advanced Compression complements Enterprise Edition basic table compression feature with comprehensive data compression and Information Lifecycle Management capabilities, including those specifically tailored to Oracle's engineered systems, like Oracle Exadata.
• Oracle Database In-Memory, an in-memory, column-oriented data store, has been seamlessly integrated^[19] into the Oracle Database. This technology aims to improve the performance of analytic workloads without impacting the performance of transactions that continue to use Oracle's traditional row format in memory. The product's performance comes through the in-memory, columnar compressed format and through the use of SIMD vector processing (Single Instruction processing Multiple Data values).
  • In-Memory Aggregation improves performance of typical analytic queries using efficient in-memory arrays for joins and aggregation.^{[22][need quotation to verify]}
• Oracle Real Application Testing enable testing of system changes in a simulation of production-level workload and use.
• Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache allows caching subsets of a database in the application tier for improved response time. It is built using Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database.

Security

• Oracle Advanced Security provides Transparent Data Encryption and Data Redaction security features, the former allowing encryption of data stored in a database (all or a subset of it), exported using Data Pump, or backed up using Oracle Recovery Manager, and the latter allowing redaction of sensitive database data (e.g., credit card or social security numbers) returned to database applications.
• Oracle Database Vault enforces segregation of duties, principle of least privilege and other data access controls, allowing protection of application data from access by privileged database users.
• Oracle Label Security is a sophisticated and flexible framework for a fine-grained label based access control (LBAC) implementation.

Management

• Oracle Multitenant is the capability that allows database consolidation and provides additional abstraction layer. In a Multitenant configuration, one Oracle database instance known as 'container database' (CDB) acts as a federated database system for a collection of up to 252 distinct portable collections of database objects, referred to as 'pluggable databases' (PDB), each appearing to an outside client as a regular non-CDB Oracle database.
• Management Packs: integrated set of Oracle Enterprise Manager tools for maintaining various aspects of Oracle Database including:
  • Diagnostics Pack
  • Tuning Pack
  • Database Lifecycle Management Pack
  • Data Masking and Subsetting Pack
  • Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database

Developers

• Oracle Spatial and Graph^[23] complements the Oracle Locator feature (available in all editions of Oracle Database^[24]) with advanced spatial capabilities enabling the development of complex geographic information systems and includes network data model and RDF/OWL Semantic graphs

Integration

• Oracle GoldenGate 11g (distributed real-time data acquisition)

Apart from the clearly defined database options, Oracle databases may include many semi-autonomous software sub-systems, which Oracle Corporation sometimes refers to as 'features' in a sense subtly different from the normal use of the word. For example, Oracle Data Guard counts officially as a feature, but the command-stack within SQL*Plus, though a usability feature, does not appear in the list of 'features' in Oracle's list.^{[original research?]} Such 'features' may include (for example):

• Data Guard for high availability
• Generic Connectivity for connecting to non-Oracle systems.
• Database Resource Manager (DRM), which controls the use of computing resources.^[25]
• Expression filtering^[26]
• Fast-start parallel rollback^[27]
• Fine-grained auditing (FGA) (in Oracle Enterprise Edition)^[28] supplements standard security-auditing features^[29]
• Flashback for selective data recovery and reconstruction^[30]
• Heterogeneous Services (HS), providing connectivity to non-Oracle systems and code.^[31]
• iSQL*Plus, a web-browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) for manipulating data in an Oracle database (compare SQL*Plus)
• Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC), tools that consist of:^[32]
  • Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET)^[33]
  • Oracle Developer Tools (ODT) for Visual Studio
  • Oracle Providers for ASP.NET
  • Oracle Database Extensions for .NET
  • Oracle Provider for OLE DB
  • Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server
• Oracle-managed files (OMF) – a feature allowing automated naming, creation and deletion of datafiles at the operating-system level.
• Recovery Manager (RMAN) for database backup, restoration and recovery
• SQL*Plus, a program that allows users to interact with Oracle database(s) via SQL and PL/SQL commands on a command-line. Compare iSQL*Plus.
• SQLcl, a command-line interface for queries, developed on the basis of Oracle SQL Developer^[34]
• Universal Connection Pool (UCP), a connection pool based on Java and supporting JDBC, LDAP, and JCA^[35]
• Virtual Private Database^[36] (VPD), an implementation of fine-grained access control.^[37]
• Oracle Application Express, a no-cost environment for database-oriented software-development^[38]
• Oracle Text uses standard SQL to index, search, and analyze text and documents stored in the Oracle database.
• Workspace Manager version-enables tables^[39] using the WMSYS schema.^[40]

Multi-model support[edit]

Oracle database provides a long list of supported data models that can be used and managed inside Oracle database:

• JSON document support^[41]Oracle Database supports JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data natively with relational database features, including transactions, indexing, declarative querying, and views.^[42].
• Simple Oracle Document Access (SODA) offers a set of NoSQL-style APIs to store, query and index JSON documents in the database, without needing to know Structure Query Language (SQL) or how Document Collections are stored in the database. Currently, SODA drivers are implemented for the following languages:
  • OCI (C-based)
• Oracle Spatial and Graph Oracle Database provides native support for managing spatial and location data
  • Oracle Locator – a freely-available subset of Oracle Spatial and Graph
• Oracle XML DB,^[43] or XDB,^[44], a no-cost component in each edition of the database, provides high-performance technology for storing and retrieving native XML.
• Oracle Text^[45], a no-cost component in each edition of the database. It provides native support for managing free text, in multiple languages inside the database.
• Oracle Multimedia (known as 'Oracle interMedia' before Oracle 11g) for storing and integrating multimedia data within a database^[46]
• Object-relational database^[47] support, a no-cost component in each edition of the database. It provides native support for objects inside the database.

Utilities[edit]

Oracle Corporation classifies as 'utilities' bundled software supporting data transfer, data maintenance and database administration.^[48]

Utilities included in Oracle database distributions include:

• Data Pump utilities, which aid in importing and exporting data and metadata between databases^[49]
• SQL*Loader, utility that facilitates high performance data loading.
• oradebug – interfaces with Oracle session tracing^[50]

Tools[edit]

As of 2007 Oracle Corporation had started a drive toward 'wizard'-driven environments with a view to enabling non-programmers to produce simple, integrates hardware-optimized Java code into an Oracle 10g database.^[56]

Oracle's OPatch provides patch management for Oracle databases.^[57]

The SQLTXPLAIN tool (or SQLT) offers tuning assistance for Oracle SQL queries.^[58]

Testing[edit]

• Oracle Live SQL makes available a test environment for Oracle Database users.^[59]

Programming language APIs[edit]

Oracle Database can be accessed from many programming languages and environments. These include:

• Java via JDBC, SQLJ
• Microsoft .NET via ODP.NET
• C and C++ via OCI, OCCI, Oracle's ODBC Driver, ODPI-C, OCILIB, Pro*C/C++
• Node.js via node-oracledb
• Python via cx_Oracle
• PHP via PHP OCI8, PDO_OCI
• Go via goracle, ora, go-oci8
• R via ROracle
• Ruby via ruby-oci8, ruby-odpi
• Ruby on Rails via the Oracle 'enhanced' ActiveRecord adapter
• Perl via DBD::Oracle
• Erlang via erloci
• Rust via rust-oracle, mimir
• COBOL via Pro*COBOL
• FORTRAN via Pro*FORTRAN
• SAS via SAS/ACCESS(R) for Relational Databases

Java based languages like Scala can use JDBC to access Oracle Database.

External routines[edit]

PL/SQL routines within Oracle databases can access external routines registered in operating-system shared libraries.^[60][61]The DBMS_SCHEDULER package can invoke external scripts at the operating-system level from PL/SQL.

Use[edit]

Database support options[edit]

Users who have Oracle support contracts can use Oracle's 'My Oracle Support' or 'MOS'^[62]web site – known as 'MetaLink' until a re-branding exercise completed in October 2010. The support site provides users of Oracle Corporation products with a repository of reported problems, diagnostic scripts and solutions. It also integrates with the provision of support tools, patches and upgrades.

The Remote Diagnostic Agent or RDA^[63] can operate as a command-line diagnostic tool executing a script. The data captured provides an overview of the Oracle Database environment intended for diagnostic and trouble-shooting. Within RDA, the HCVE (Health Check Validation Engine)^[64] can verify and isolate host system environmental issues that may affect the performance of Oracle software.

Database-related guidelines[edit]

Oracle Corporation also endorses certain practices and conventions as enhancing the use of its database products. These include:

• Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA)^[65] guidelines on developing high-availability systems
• Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA), blueprints for mapping Oracle-database objects to file-systems

Oracle Certification Program[edit]

The Oracle Certification Program, a professional certification program, includes the administration of Oracle Databases as one of its main certification paths. It contains three levels:

1. Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
2. Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
3. Oracle Certified Master (OCM)

User Groups[edit]

A large number of User Groups for Oracle Database administrators, developers and users has been established on geographical/region, industry and product basis, including:

• Geographical/regional user groups^[66] (e.g. The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG))
• Industry-centric user groups (e.g. Oracle Health Sciences User Group)
• Product-centric user groups (e.g. The OakTable Network)

The Oracle User Group communities also host regular events for customers/users to share their experiences and knowledge.

Market position[edit]

As of 2016 Oracle holds #1 RDBMS market share worldwide based on the revenue share ahead of its four closest competitors – Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Teradata .^[67]

Competition[edit]

In the market for relational databases, Oracle Database competes against commercial products such as IBM's DB2 UDB and Microsoft SQL Server. Oracle and IBM tend to battle for the mid-range database market on UNIX and Linux platforms, while Microsoft dominates the mid-range database market on Microsoft Windows platforms. However, since they share many of the same customers, Oracle and IBM tend to support each other's products in many middleware and application categories (for example: WebSphere, PeopleSoft, and Siebel SystemsCRM), and IBM's hardware divisions work closely^{[citation needed]} with Oracle on performance-optimizing server-technologies (for example, Linux on z Systems). Niche commercial competitors include Teradata (in data warehousing and business intelligence), Software AG's ADABAS, Sybase, and IBM's Informix, among many others.

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Increasingly, the Oracle database products compete against such open-source software relational database systems as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Couchbase. Oracle acquired Innobase, supplier of the InnoDB codebase to MySQL, in part to compete better against open source alternatives, and acquired Sun Microsystems, owner of MySQL, in 2010. Database products licensed as open source are, by the legal terms of the Open Source Definition, free to distribute and free of royalty or other licensing fees.

Pricing[edit]

Oracle Database Cloud Services^[68][edit]

Customers can choose from a wide range of database services on Oracle Cloud that are available as 'pay as you go' hourly and monthly rates, and also have the option to re-use existing on-prem licenses on Oracle Cloud via a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) program.^[68]

Oracle Database On-Premise Licensing^[69][edit]

Prospective purchasers can obtain licenses for on-prem deployment based either on the number of processors in their target machines or on the number of potential seats ('named users').^[70]. The term 'per processor' for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition is defined with respect to physical cores and a processor core multiplier (common processors = 0.5*cores). e.g. An 8-processor, 32-core server using Intel Xeon 56XX CPUs would require 16 processor licenses.^[71]: The low entry cost, Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2), includes Real Application Clusters and may be deployed on servers or clusters with a maximum of 2 sockets total and capped to use a maximum of 16 concurrent user threads.

Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)^[72] (beta version released in 2005, production version released in February 2006), offers a free version of the Oracle RDBMS, but one limited to 11 GB of user data and to 1 GB of memory used by the database (SGA+PGA).^[73] XE uses no more than one CPU and lacks an internal JVM. XE runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Linux, but not on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and the other operating systems available for other editions. Support is via a free Oracle Discussion Forum only.

Physical and logical structures[edit]

An Oracle database system—identified by an alphanumeric system identifier or SID^[74]—comprises at least one instance of the application, along with data storage. An instance—identified persistently by an instantiation number (or activation id: SYS.V_$DATABASE.ACTIVATION#)—comprises a set of operating-system processes and memory-structures that interact with the storage. Typical processes include PMON (the process monitor) and SMON (the system monitor). Oracle documentation can refer to an active database instance as a 'shared memory realm'.^[75]

Users of Oracle databases refer to the server-side memory-structure as the SGA (System Global Area). The SGA typically holds cache information such as).^[76]Tablespaces can contain various types of memory segments, such as Data Segments, Index Segments, etc. Segments in turn comprise one or more extents. Extents comprise groups of contiguous data blocks. Data blocks form the basic units of data storage.

A DBA can impose maximum quotas on storage per user within each tablespace.^[77]

Partitioning[edit]

The partitioning feature was introduced in Oracle 8.^[78] This allows the partitioning of tables based on different set of keys. Specific partitions can then be added or dropped to help manage large data sets.

Monitoring[edit]

Oracle database management tracks its computer data storage with the help of information stored in the SYSTEM tablespace. The SYSTEM tablespace contains the data dictionary, indexes and clusters. A data dictionary consists of a special collection of tables that contains information about all user-objects in the database. Since version 8i, the Oracle RDBMS also supports 'locally managed' tablespaces that store space management information in bitmaps in their own headers rather than in the SYSTEM tablespace (as happens with the default 'dictionary-managed' tablespaces). Version 10g and later introduced the SYSAUX tablespace, which contains some of the tables formerly stored in the SYSTEM tablespace, along with objects for other tools such as OEM, which previously required its own tablespace.^[79]

Disk files[edit]

Disk files primarily represent one of the following structures:

• Data and index files: These files provide the physical storage of data, which can consist of the.
• Undo files: These special datafiles, which can only contain undo information, aid in recovery, rollbacks, and read-consistency.
• Archive log files: These files, copies of the redo log files, are usually stored at different locations. They are necessary (for example) when applying changes to a standby database, or when performing recovery after a media failure. One can store identical archive logs in multiple locations.
• Tempfiles: These special datafiles serve exclusively for temporary storage data (used for example during large sorts or for global temporary tables)
• Control files, necessary for database startup. Oracle Corporation defines a control file as '[a] binary file that records the physical structure of a database and contains the names and locations of redo log files, the time stamp of the database creation, the current log sequence number, checkpoint information, and so on'.^[80]

At the physical level, data files comprise one or more data blocks, where the block size can vary between data files.

Data files can occupy pre-allocated space in the file system of a computer server, use raw disk directly, or exist within ASM logical volumes.^[81]

Database schema[edit]

Most Oracle database installations come with a default schema called SCOTT. After the installation process sets up sample tables, the user logs into the database with the username scott and the password tiger. The name of the SCOTT schema originated with Bruce Scott, one of the first employees at Oracle (then Software Development Laboratories), who had a cat named Tiger.^[82]

Oracle Corporation now de-emphasizes the SCOTT schema, as it uses few features of more recent Oracle releases. Most recent examples supplied by Oracle Corporation reference the default HR or OE schemas.

Other default schemas^[83][84] include:

• SYS (essential core database structures and utilities)
• SYSTEM (additional core database structures and utilities, and privileged account)
• OUTLN (used to store metadata for stored outlines for stable query-optimizer execution plans.^[85])
• BI, IX, HR, OE, PM, and SH (expanded sample schemas^[86] containing more data and structures than the older SCOTT schema).

System Global Area[edit]

Each Oracle instance uses a System Global Area or SGA—a shared-memory area—to store its data and control-information.^[87]

Each Oracle instance allocates itself an SGA when it starts and de-allocates it at shut-down time. The information in the SGA consists of the following elements, each of which has a fixed size, established at instance startup:

• Datafiles

Every Oracle database has one or more physical datafiles, which contain all the database data. The data of logical database structures, such as tables and indexes, is physically stored in the datafiles allocated for a database.

Datafiles have the following characteristics:

• One or more datafiles form a logical unit of database storage called a tablespace.
• A datafile can be associated with only one tablespace.
• Datafiles can be defined to extend automatically when they are full.

Data in a datafile is read, as needed, during normal database operation and stored in the memory cache of Oracle Database. For example, if a user wants to access some data in a table of a database, and if the requested information is not already in the memory cache for the database, then it is read from the appropriate datafiles and stored in memory.

Modified or new data is not necessarily written to a datafile immediately. To reduce the amount of disk access and to increase performance, data is pooled in memory and written to the appropriate datafiles all at once.

• the redo log buffer: this stores redo entries—a log of changes made to the database. The instance writes redo log buffers to the redo log as quickly and efficiently as possible. The redo log aids in instance recovery in the event of a system failure.
• the shared pool: this area of the SGA stores shared-memory structures such as shared SQL areas in the library cache and internal information in the data dictionary. An insufficient amount of memory allocated to the shared pool can cause performance degradation.
• the Large pool Optional area that provides large memory allocations for certain large processes, such as Oracle backup and recovery operations, and I/O server processes
• Database buffer cache: Caches blocks of data retrieved from the database
• KEEP buffer pool: A specialized type of database buffer cache that is tuned to retain blocks of data in memory for long periods of time
• RECYCLE buffer pool: A specialized type of database buffer cache that is tuned to recycle or remove block from memory quickly
• nK buffer cache: One of several specialized database buffer caches designed to hold block sizes different from the default database block size
• Java pool:Used for all session-specific Java code and data in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• Streams pool: Used by Oracle Streams to store information required by capture and apply

When you start the instance by using Enterprise Manager or SQL*Plus, the amount of memory allocated for the SGA is displayed.^[88]<link>

Library cache[edit]

The library cache^[89] stores shared SQL, caching the parse tree and the execution plan for every unique SQL statement. If multiple applications issue the same SQL statement, each application can access the shared SQL area. This reduces the amount of memory needed and reduces the processing-time used for parsing and execution planning.

Data dictionary cache[edit]

The data dictionary comprises a set of tables and views that map the structure of the database.

Oracle databases store information here about the logical and physical structure of the database. The data dictionary contains information such as:

• user information, such as user privileges
• integrity constraints defined for tables in the database
• names and datatypes of all columns in database tables
• information on space allocated and used for schema objects

The Oracle instance frequently accesses the data dictionary to parse SQL statements. Oracle operation depends on ready access to the data dictionary—performance bottlenecks in the data dictionary affect all Oracle users. Because of this, database administrators must make sure that the data dictionary cache^[90] has sufficient capacity to cache this data. Without enough memory for the) within an Oracle database present information from virtual tables (X$ tables)^[93]built on the basis of database memory.^[94]Database users can access the V$ views (named after the prefix of their synonyms) to obtain information on database structures and performance.

Process architectures[edit]

Oracle processes[edit]

The Oracle RDBMS typically relies on a group of processes running simultaneously in the background and interacting to monitor and expedite database operations. Typical operating environments might include – temporarily or permanently – some of the following individual processes (shown along with their abbreviated nomenclature):^[95]

• advanced queueing processes (Qnnn)^[96]
• archiver processes (ARCn)
• checkpoint process (CKPT) *REQUIRED*
• coordinator-of-job-queues process (CJQn): dynamically spawns slave processes for job-queues
• database writer processes (DBWn) *REQUIRED*
• Data Pump master process (DMnn)^[97]
• Data Pump worker processes (DWnn)^[97]
• dispatcher processes (Dnnn): multiplex server-processes on behalf of users
• main Data Guard Broker monitor process (DMON)^[98]
• job-queue slave processes (Jnnn)^[99]
• log-writer process (LGWR) *REQUIRED*
• log-write network-server (LNSn):^[100] transmits redo logs in Data Guard environments
• logical standby coordinator process (LSP0): controls Data Guard log-application
• media-recovery process (MRP): detached recovery-server process
• memory-manager process (MMAN): used for internal database tasks such as Automatic Shared Memory Management (ASMM)
• memory-monitor process (MMON): process for automatic problem-detection, self-tuning and statistics-gathering^[101]
• memory-monitor light process (MMNL): gathers and stores Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) data
• mmon slaves (Mnnnn—M0000, M0001, etc.): background slaves of the MMON process^[102]
• netslave processes (NSVn): Data Guard Broker inter-database communication processes^[103]
• parallel query execution servers (Pnnn)^[104]
• process-monitor process (PMON) *REQUIRED*
• process-spawner process (PSP0): spawns Oracle background processes after initial instance startup^[105]
• queue-monitor coordinator process (QMNC): dynamically spawns queue monitor slaves^[106]
• queue-monitor processes (QMNn)
• recoverer process (RECO)
• remote file-server process (RFS): in Oracle Data Guard, a standby recipient of primary redo-logs^[107]
• monitor for Data Guard management (RSM0): Data Guard Broker Worker process^[108]
• shared server processes (Snnn): serve client-requests
• space-management coordinator process (SMCO): coordinates space management (from release 11g)^[109]
• system monitor process (SMON) *REQUIRED*

User processes, connections and sessions[edit]

Oracle Database terminology distinguishes different computer-science terms in describing how end-users interact with the database:

• user processes involve the invocation of application software^[110]
• a connection refers to the pathway linking a user process to an Oracle instance^[111]
• sessions consist of specific established groups of interactions, with each group involving a client process and an Oracle instance.^[112]

Each session within an instance has a session identifier – a session ID or 'SID'^[113][114] (distinct from the Oracle system-identifier SID), and may also have an associated SPID (operating-system process identifier).^[115]

Concurrency and locking[edit]

Oracle databases control simultaneous access to data resources with locks (alternatively documented as 'enqueues').^[116]The databases also use 'latches' – low-level serialization mechanisms to protect shared data structures in the System Global Area.^[117]

Oracle locks fall into three categories:^[118]

• DML locks (or data locks) protect data
• System locks (including latches, mutexes and internal locks) protect internal database structures like data files.
• DDL locks (or data dictionary locks) protect the structure of schema objects.

Note: over the course of multiple releases Oracle has reduced the number of instances where an exclusive DDL lock is required when making changes to schema objects.

Non-blocking ddl's added as of 11.2

• CREATE INDEX online
• ALTER INDEX rebuild online
• ALTER TABLE add column not null with default value
• ALTER TABLE add constraint enable no validate
• ALTER TABLE modify constraint validate
• ALTER TABLE add column (without any default)
• ALTER INDEX visible / invisible
• ALTER INDEX parallel / no parallel

Non-blocking ddl's added to the list in 12.1

• DROP INDEX online (backported to 11.2)
• ALTER TABLE set unused column online
• ALTER TABLE drop constraint online
• ALTER INDEX unusable online
• ALTER TABLE modify column visible / invisible
• ALTER TABLE move partition / sub-partition online
• ALTER TABLE add nullable column with default value

Non-blocking ddl's added to the list in 12.2

• ALTER TABLE split partition [sub-partition] online
• ALTER TABLE move online (move of a non-partitioned table)
• ALTER TABLEe modify partition by .. online (to convert a non-partitioned table to partitioned state)

Non-blocking ddl's added to the list in 18.1

• ALTER TABLE merge partition online
• ALTER TABLE modify partition by .. online (to change the partitioning schema of a table)

Configuration[edit]

Database administrators control many of the tunable variations in an Oracle instance by means of values in a parameter file.^[119]This file in its ASCII default form ('pfile') normally has a name of the format init<SID-name>.ora. The default binary equivalent server parameter file ('spfile') (dynamically reconfigurable to some extent)^[120]defaults to the format spfile<SID-name>.ora. Within an SQL-based environment, the views V$PARAMETER^[121]and V$SPPARAMETER^[122]give access to reading parameter values.

Implementation

The Oracle DBMS kernel code depends on C programming. Database administrators have limited access to Oracle-internal C structures via V$ views and their underlying X$ 'tables'.^[123]

Layers or modules in the kernel (depending on different releases) may include the following (given with their inferred meaning):^{[124][125][126]}

Administration[edit]

The 'Scheduler' (DBMS_SCHEDULER package, available from Oracle 10g onwards) and the 'Job' subsystems (DBMS_JOB package) permit the automation of predictable processing.^[127]

Oracle Resource Manager aims to allocate CPU resources between users and groups of users when such resources become scarce.^[128]As of Oracle Release 10.2, Database Resource Manager operates in Enterprise Edition.^[129]

Oracle Corporation has stated in product announcements that manageability for DBAs improved from Oracle9i to 10g. Lungu and Vătuiu (2008) assessed relative manageability by performing common DBA tasks and measuring timings.^[130]They performed their tests on a single Pentium CPU (1.7 GHz) with 512 MB RAM, running Windows Server 2000. From Oracle9i to 10g, installation improved 36%, day-to-day administration 63%, backup and recovery 63%, and performance diagnostics and tuning 74%, for a weighted total improvement of 56%. The researchers concluded that 'Oracle10g represents a giant step forward from Oracle9i in making the database easier to use and manage'.

Logging and tracing[edit]

Various file-system structures hold logs and trace files, which record different aspects of database activity. Configurable destinations for such records can include:

• background dump (bdump) destination: contains files generated when an Oracle process experiences unexpected problems.^[131] Also holds the 'alert log'.^[132]
• core dump (cdump) destination
• user dump (udump) destination

Network access[edit]

Oracle Net Services allow client or remote applications to access Oracle databases via networksessions using various protocols.

Internationalization[edit]

Oracle Database software comes in 63 language-versions (including regional variations such as British English and American English). Variations between versions cover the names of days and months, abbreviations, time-symbols (such as A.M. and A.D.), and sorting.^[133]

Oracle Corporation has translated Oracle Database error-messages into Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.^[134]

Oracle Corporation provides database developers with tools and mechanisms for producing internationalized database applications: referred to internally as 'Globalization'.^[135]

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Bibliography[edit]

• Loney, Kevin (17 December 2008). 'Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference' (1st ed.). McGraw-Hill: 1368. ISBN0-07-159875-8. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2009.

External links[edit]

• Overview provided by Oracle Corporation.
• Oracle Licensing Knowledge Net.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, also termed as the OBI EE Plus, is Oracle Corporation's set of business intelligence tools consisting of former Siebel Systems business intelligence and Hyperion Solutions business intelligence offerings.

The industry counterpart and main competitors of OBIEE are Tableau Software, Microsoft BI, TIBCOSpotfire, IBMCognos, SAP AGBusiness Objects, Looker and SAS Institute Inc. The products currently leverage a common BI Server providing integration among the tools.

Extensions[edit]

• OBIA (Oracle Business Intelligence Applications)^[1]
• Oracle Scorecard: an implementation of balanced scorecard reporting.^[2]

History[edit]

• 2000: nQuire formed: Larry Barbetta CEO..
• 2001: nQuire courted by Siebel.
• 2002: Siebel purchases nQuire
• 2005: Oracle purchases Siebel(7.8.3.1)
• 2010: 11g Version Released
• 2015: 12c Version Released^[3]

References[edit]

1. ^Keyes, Jessica (2014). 'Oracle Analytics: Business Intelligence and Analytic Applications'. The CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. pp. 74–75. ISBN9781482249941. Retrieved 2016-09-04. Sometimes OBIEE is used interchangeably with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA), which is a prebuilt BI and [Managing the enterprise with the help of the 'Balanced Scorecard' system]. Финансовый Директор (in Russian). 3. Retrieved 2011-03-31. BSC можно реализовать как в специальных программных продуктах (например, Oros Scorecard, Hyperion Performance Scorecard, Oracle Scorecard и др.), так и в Excel.[One can implement BSC both in specialized software products (for example: Oros Scorecard, Hyperion Performance Scorecard, Oracle Scorecard, etc) as well as in Excel.]
2. ^http://www.codecdss.co.uk/company/news-and-events/obiee12c-vs-obiee11g/

Bibliography[edit]

• Haroun Khan, Christian Screen, Adrian Ward (July 19, 2012). Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. ISBN1849685665.
• Darlene Armstrong-Smith, Michael Armstrong-Smith (20 November 2013). Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 11g Handbook (1st ed.). Oracle Press. ISBN0071804307.

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