Oracle is a leader in the business database market, proving to its competitors that its products are the fastest, most economical and integrated, available on all platforms (Unix, Linux and Windows). Coming to encompass various fields and/or areas of the business market.
Its main uses and characteristics are the following:
- Transaction processing — High performance and adaptive for Applications.
- Business model: Eliminating the diversification of data sources, higher yields of the enterprise information are obtained.
- Content management: Safe and reliable management of all business data.
- Reliability: Data protection from System falls or human error.
- Management: reduction of installation costs and administration of arrays.
As each company requires different solutions, depending on their size and their business.
Oracle makes available to its clients different editions of its databases:
- Enterprise Edition: Industrial leader in scalability and reliability for the transaction process, decision making and information management.
- Standard Edition: The standard Version have a maximum of four processors at an affordable price and that includes the Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) software in the price.
- Standard Edition One: The standard version have a maximum of two processors at an affordable price.
- Personal Edition: Personal versions with full functionalities and compatibility with the entire Oracle database family.
