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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 12C In-Memory Option is aimed at enabling ISV applications to accelerate performance by orders of magnitude for several use cases.

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

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.