Oracle's summer of product launches continues as Database 12c becomes generally available. Will all applications go in-memory?

Earlier in June, Oracle downgraded all its older relational database releases prior to version 19c to Sustaining Support status. According to third-party support provider Rimini Street, Sustaining ...

Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain Oracle has postponed the end of support date for its popular 19c database as users await news of a mainstream on-prem version of its latest ...

Extended support for Oracle Database 19c will last until 2032, with caveats. Still no news of an on-prem edition of Oracle Database 23ai.

Oracle believes that application-level multitenancy is inferior and less secure than 12c’s approach, which pushes multitenancy to the database tier, Ellison said on the conference call.

Many organizations are now embracing the cloud in order to help reduce their operational costs, but the notion of migrating an Oracle 12c multi-tenancy database from on-premise to the Oracle Cloud may ...

In one sense, the early certification for 12c flies in the face of the competitive rhetoric exchanged by SAP and Oracle executives over their respective database technologies.

SAP has announced it has certified its products on Oracle Database 12c. 'More than two-thirds of all SAP customers run their SAP applications on the Oracle Database today. There is a strong overlap,' ...

Oracle says the new In-Memory Option it unveiled today will allow its 12c database customers to run analytic workloads 100 times faster than they previously could. The secret sauce is a new ...

The feature allows multiple databases to run inside of a single 12c database instance and constitutes Oracle’s take on multitenancy, which is a key ingredient of cloud-based applications.