Oracle White Paper June 2014 Oracle Database 12c Product Family Oracle Database 12c Product Family Disclaimer The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle. Oracle Database 12c Product Family Introduction ......................................................................................... 1 Enterprise Edition Options .................................................................. 2 Oracle Active Data Guard ............................................................. 2 Advanced Analytics ...................................................................... 2 Oracle Advanced Compression ................................................... 2 Oracle Advanced Security ........................................................... 3 Oracle Database Vault .................................................................. 3 Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache .................. 3 Oracle Label Security ................................................................... 4 Oracle Multitenant ......................................................................... 4 Oracle On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) .......................... 4 Oracle Partitioning ........................................................................ 4 Oracle Real Application Clusters ................................................ 5 Oracle RAC One Node .................................................................. 5 Oracle Real Application Testing .................................................. 5 Oracle Spatial and Graph ............................................................. 5 Manageability ...................................................................................... 6 Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database .............. 6 Oracle Data Masking Pack for Oracle and Non-Oracle Databases 6 Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database 6 Oracle Diagnostic Pack ................................................................ 7 Oracle Test Data Management Pack for Oracle and Non-Oracle Databases ...................................................................................... 7 Oracle Tuning Pack ...................................................................... 7 Related Products ................................................................................ 8 Airline Data Model ......................................................................... 8 Communications Data Model ....................................................... 8 Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall .................................. 8 Oracle Big Data Appliance ........................................................... 8 Oracle Big Data Connectors ........................................................ 8 Oracle Cloud File System ............................................................. 8 Oracle Database 12c Product Family Oracle Database Appliance .......................................................... 9 Oracle Database Mobile Server ................................................... 9 Oracle Exadata .............................................................................. 9 Oracle Programmer ...................................................................... 9 Oracle Secure Backup .................................................................. 9 Conclusion ........................................................................................ 10 Table 1-1 Feature Availability for Oracle Database Editions ............ 11 Oracle Database 12c Product Family Introduction Oracle Database 12c is available in a variety of editions tailored to fit different sizes of organizations, and several Enterprise Edition only options are available for specific business and IT requirements. This paper outlines the features available with each edition of Oracle Database 12c, and the options available for Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition. • Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition One (SE1) delivers unprecedented ease-of-use, power, and price/performance for workgroup, departmental, and web applications on single servers with a maximum of 2 sockets. • Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition (SE) is available on single or clustered servers with a maximum capacity of four sockets in total. It includes Oracle Real Application Clusters as a standard feature at no additional cost. • Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition (EE) is available on single and clustered servers with no socket limitation. It provides efficient, reliable and secure data management for mission-critical transactional applications, query-intensive data warehouses, and mixed workloads. Oracle Database 12c introduces a new architecture featuring Oracle Multitenant that simplifies the process of consolidating databases onto the cloud. It delivers all the benefits of managing many databases as one, yet retains the data isolation and resource prioritization of separate database. All editions of Oracle Database 12c are built using the same code base and are completely compatible with each other. Oracle Database 12c is available on a choice of operating systems and includes a common set of application development tools and programming interfaces. Customers can start out with Standard Edition One, and as business grows or depending on changing requirements, easily upgrade to Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition. It's simple to upgrade -- just install the next edition’s software -- you make *no* changes to your database or applications, and get the performance, scalability, reliability, and security for which Oracle is renowned in an easily managed environment. 1 Oracle Database 12c Product Family As a longtime Oracle Database user, I'm excited about Oracle Database 12c's Oracle Multitenant. This important new feature will allow users to create a container database and simply plug in multiple databases driving down cost of ownership while simultaneously increasing productivity. Daniel A. Morgan, Oracle ACE Director Enterprise Edition Options Each edition of Oracle Database 12c has a common set features and functionality to meet the varying requirements of today’s business applications. Additionally, Oracle offers a range of Enterprise Edition Options for more demanding large-scale, cloud-computing, mission-critical transaction processing, big data, and other business applications. Oracle Active Data Guard Oracle Active Data Guard enables read-only access to a physical standby database for queries, sorting, reporting, web-based access, etc., while continuously applying changes received from the production database. Oracle Active Data Guard 12c includes Global Data Services, Far Sync, Fast Sync, Real-time cascading, and DML on Global Temporary Tables. In addition, Oracle Active Data Guard can enable a standby database to be opened and used for testing purposes and then quickly reverted back to a viable standby for disaster recovery. No changes to the production database are lost during testing. Oracle Active Data Guard also enables the use of fast incremental backups when offloading backups to a standby database, and can provide additional benefits of high availability and disaster protection against planned or unplanned outages at the production site. Advanced Analytics Oracle Advanced Analytics empowers data and business analysts to extract knowledge, discover new insights and make predictions—working directly with large data volumes in the Oracle Database. Oracle Advanced Analytics provides a comprehensive advanced analytics platform through a combination of powerful in-database algorithms and open source R algorithms. Analytic capabilities are accessible via SQL and R languages, and through the SQL Developer extension or open-source R clients. Together, these features enhance the database with a comprehensive range of analytical functionality for data mining, text mining and predictive analytics, summary and descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis and graphics, comparative statistics, correlations, univariate and multivariate statistics, and advanced numerical computations. Oracle Advanced Compression Oracle Advanced Compression—with Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition—helps you manage your growing amounts of data (that on average are tripling every couple of years) in a cost effective manner. The new Heat Map feature tracks access to tables, partitions, and individual blocks to provide deep insight into how your data is accessed by applications and end users. The new Automatic Data 2 Oracle Database 12c Product Family Optimization feature uses simple policies you create that trigger automatic movement of tables, partitions, and entire table spaces that allow you to determine the level of compression over time. Oracle Advanced Compression compresses any type of data, including structured and unstructured data such as documents, images, and multimedia, as well as network traffic and data in the process of being backed up. As a result, Oracle Advanced Compression and Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) capabilities help you use resources more efficiently and lower storage costs. Oracle Advanced Security Oracle Advanced Security helps you protect