Oracle launches ‘Oracle Database In-Memory’

Oracle Partner Network (OPN) has announced the launch of Oracle Database In-Memory, an innovative, dual-format in-memory architecture that combines the best of row format and column format to simultaneously deliver fast analytics and efficient online transaction processing OLTP, at a special event at Oracle’s headquarters.

Speaking at the event, Larry Ellison (pictured), chief executive officer, Oracle, disclosed that Oracle Database In-Memory enables customers to accelerate database performance by orders of magnitude for analytics, data warehousing, and reporting while also speeding up OLTP.

“Oracle Database In-Memory allows any existing Oracle Database-compatible application to automatically and transparently take advantage of columnar in-memory processing, without additional programming or application changes.

“Oracle Database In-Memory demonstrated from 100x to more than 1000x speedup for enterprise application modules in performance tests, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s JD Edwards, Oracle’s PeopleSoft, Oracle’s Siebel, and Oracle Fusion Applications,” he said.

Oracle Database In-Memory, which is scheduled for general availability in July 2014, can be used with all hardware platforms on which Oracle Database 12c is supported as it has undergone extensive validation testing by hundreds of end-users, ISV partners, and Oracle Applications teams over the past nine months.

Ellison further stated that users can get immediate answers to business questions that previously took hours to obtain and will be able to deliver a faster, better experience to both their internal and external constituents with Oracle Database In-Memory.

“Oracle Database In-Memory inherits all Oracle Database capabilities including: maximum availability architecture to protect against data loss and downtime, industry leading security technologies, scalability to meet any requirement via scale-up on large SMP servers, big data processing or database clouds, rich programmability including Java, R, Big Data, PHP Python, Node, REST, Ruby, etc.

It also comes with full data type support such as relational, objects, XML, text, spatial, and new integrated JSON support, coupled with Oracle Engineered Systems, including Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle SuperCluster,” the CEO added.

“Oracle Applications provide the foundation for our customers’ mission-critical business operations, including sales, financials, supply chain and human resources. By raising the bar on speed, Oracle Database In-Memory enables customers to compound the value of their existing applications by deriving new insights and business opportunities faster,” Steve Miranda, executive vice president of Application Development, Oracle, said.

Also speaking at the event, Sudhi Vijayakumar, Yahoo’s principal oracle database architect, disclosed that Yahoo joined Oracle’s beta program to understand how memory optimization could sharpen big data processing.