The latest release of Oracle Database (12.1.0.2) offers a unique set of features that portend increases in application workload execution, especially for analytics and data warehousing queries. This ...

Major upgrade to the ever-evolving Oracle Database brings JavaScript support, graph optimizations, in-memory enhancements, and dramatic improvements to JSON operations and in-database machine learning ...

In an enterprise technology world featuring too much hot air and not enough world-class technology, SAP has done an excellent job spreading the idea that its 5-year-old HANA database delivers ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has thrown his gauntlet down in the burgeoning market for in-memory computing, announcing a new option for Oracle’s flagship database at the OpenWorld conference in San ...

Oracle databases around the world, used for recording critical business transactions and performing analytics, are about to get faster. Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief executive of the legacy ...

Traditionally, data in tables has been stored in row format. This is good for operations in which the whole row and many columns are accessed—as long as there are few rows. It’s not ideal for many ...

Oracle database shops that have or are planning to download the latest version of 12c take warning: The vendor’s newly launched, much-hyped in-memory processing database option is turned on by default ...

Oracle is also making its APEX low-code database development tools available as a managed cloud service to help programmers and partners build data-driven applications faster. After a nearly two-year ...

SAP announced Friday it has integrated its in-memory HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) with IBM’s DB2 database, a move that underscores the companies’ increasing alignment against rival ...

Oracle today announced the latest generation of its Exadata X10M computing platform, with up to three times higher transaction throughput and 3.6 times faster analytic query performance than the ...