With the new Oracle Database 12c system, businesses can now deploy container-based databases that according to Oracle Senior Director for Enterprise Technology Kaleem Chaudhry, will give IT administrators the power to manage multitudes of databases as one component.
Sporting a new, reworked architecture, the latest Oracle Database update allows for multitenant hosting of databases, which means a number of databases can be hosted on the same hardware without drawing up more computer resources.
Chaudhry said the company has added more than 500 new features in the new release, which came five years after the launch of Oracle Database 11g, the last of the grid-computing-optimized databases from Oracle.
“When you are able to consolidate [databases], six times less hardware is required, but you can store up to 250 instances of databases,” he explained.
This makes Oracle’s new database system, he said, perfect for the new age of cloud computing, since it allows for maximum elasticity in that businesses can quickly scale up their database requirements whenever they see fit.
With a container-based architecture, IT departments can quickly “plug and unplug” databases into the container, Chaudhry said, as it significantly lowers memory utilization because there is no need for memory and background resources for each database instance.
Oracle Multitenant is a new feature of Oracle Database 12c, and allows each database plugged into the new architecture to look and feel like a standard Oracle Database to applications, so existing application can run unchanged.
With the new architecture, Chaudhry said administrators can batch-modify databases under the same container, doing away with the tedious and time-consuming method of modifying databases one by one.
Oracle said that by supporting multi-tenancy on the database tier, it makes all applications running on the Oracle Database ready for the cloud.
“The multitenant architecture provides virtually instantaneous provisioning and cloning of databases, which makes it an ideal platform for databases test and development clouds,” it noted.
To help customers efficiently manage more data, lower storage costs and improve database performance, Oracle Database 12c introduces new Automatic Data Optimization features.
A Heat Map monitors database read/write activity enabling Database Administrators to easily identify the data that is hot (very active), warm (read-only) and cold (rarely read) stored in tables and partitions.
Using smart compression and storage tiering, Database Administrators can easily define server managed policies to automatically compress and tier OLTP, Data Warehouse and Archive data based on the activity and age of data.
Chaudhry disclosed that the new Oracle Database 12c update is already available to old and new clients in the Philippines, where the software firm enjoys more than 50 percent share of the local database software systems market.
source: interaksyon.com
