The latest release of Oracle Database (12.1.0.2) offers a unique set of features that portend increases in application workload execution, especially for analytics and data warehousing queries. This ...

Oracle took a best-of-both-worlds approach to its in-memory option. The add-on creates an in-memory column store, which dramatically speeds up analytic queries, while preserving the database’s ...

To stoke performance even further, Ellison took the wraps off Oracle’s M6-32 Big Memory Machine, which he characterized as “a machine that’s ideal for in-memory databases.” ...

An in-memory database could be useful for providing up-to-the-second information for business intelligence applications, according to Tim Payne, vice president of technology marketing for Oracle EMEA.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has thrown his gauntlet down in the burgeoning market for in-memory computing, announcing a new option for Oracle’s flagship database at the OpenWorld conference in San ...

With Database 21c, Oracle adds another form of query processing for data persisted in-memory: vector processing for queries that involve repeated actions such as hash joins.

Oracle is also rolling out the M6-32 in-memory database and application system, described to be the fastest database machine worldwide with a three terabyte silicon network and integrated Exadata ...

Oracle’s in-memory database option routes data to two destinations: data bound through the row store through the normal path (into cache, before committed to memory and/or disk), while column store is ...

Oracle's new in-memory database technology promises to increase database query speed by 100 times or more, along with double the transaction performance, said CEO Larry Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld.

Oracle Corp. has issued details on pricing for its new 11g enterprise database, with the vendor making some of the most talked-about features available as extra-cost add-ons.

The in-memory option will give Oracle a primary weapon to fend off defections to SAP’s Hana in-memory database. Many SAP customers run the vendor’s Business Suite software on Oracle; SAP has ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has thrown his gauntlet down in the burgeoning market for in-memory computing, announcing a new option for Oracle’s flagship database at the OpenWorld conference in San ...