At the Oracle OpenWorld annual user conference last week, Oracle announced enhancements to the Oracle Database 12c platform, including a new in-memory option for both analytics and transactional ...

Database technology is evolving rapidly, particularly in three areas—in-memory technology, big data analytics, and the cloud—according to Andy Mendelsohn, executive vice president for database server ...

Oracle and Microsoft have announced Oracle Database@Azure, an offering to provide Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure [OCI] and deployed in Microsoft Azure data centers.

Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the ...

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