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 ...

Oracle unveiled its long-awaited in-memory database technology Tuesday, marking its official entry to a red-hot market that's all about speed and the near-instantaneous retrieval of data. In an event ...

To understand how in-memory technology translates into faster business processes, listen to Larry Ellison. When Oracle ’s CEO introduced the new Oracle Database In-Memory option on June 10, he gave ...

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 ...

Fresh off two wins on Sunday afternoon, which kept Oracle TEAM USA in the thick of the America’s Cup sailing race, Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle OpenWorld on Sunday evening with his traditional ...

SAN FRANCISCO --CEO Larry Ellison must have been in a good mood while kicking off Oracle OpenWorld 2013 on Sunday evening. Part of that is likely thanks to Team USA's back-to-back wins in some ...

Oracle wasn't first to market with in-memory database technology, but it made sure to add features and capabilities aimed at keeping its database competitors at bay, one of the vendor's top partners ...

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 ...

Among the messages that Oracle is putting out for its flagship database, adding new access paths for developers has become just as important as adding new data types. This month, Oracle is launching ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...