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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is taking flak over the in-memory database (IMDB) option in Oracle Database 12c, released publicly on Wednesday. The trouble began when Kevin Closson, formerly the performance architect in ...

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 ...