The increased performance, enhanced manageability
and stronger security of Oracle Database 11g, the first major new
release in about three years, will drive higher-than-normal early
adoption predicts market researcher Gartner.
Oracle announced the next major release of the
database management system (DBMS), Oracle Database 11g On 11 July
200 and the release includes enhancements to the core DBMS
functionality, as well as new functions and features to improve
performance, availability, security, manageability and scalability
for both online transaction processing (OLTP) and data
warehousing.
According to VP Distinguished AnalystDonald Feinberg, Oracle Database 11g builds on
the features in Oracle Database 10g, adding a long list of
capabilities to enhance manageability and
performance.
Feinberg said that the new release
should increase performance across all types of applications. He
believes that data warehouses will benefit from new types of
partitioning and Partition Advisor, OLAP enhancements, continuous
query notification and advanced SQL tuning capabilities.
He adds that RAC customers will benefit from Automatic
Database Diagnostics Monitor (ADDM), the automated tuning function
that now runs on and tunes RAC clusters and that all customers will
benefit from the enhanced manageability features, especially the
testing of applications using Database Replay and online patching
and upgrading.
Database administrators (DBAs) should benefit from many of
these functions, which will eliminate the need to find and analyse
necessary tuning information; now DBAs need only decide whether to
accept the recommendations from the DBMS. Data
warehouses should benefit from new types of partitioning and
Partition Advisor, OLAP enhancements, continuous query notification
and advanced SQL tuning capabilities.
In all, Gartner predicts that Oracle will likely see
increased revenue from sales of optional features and additional
licenses as the size of the databases grows. In addition to binary
XML storage, Oracle FastFiles allows customers to store all types
of large object data, including multimedia in the database, managed
by the DBMS. B
Because of the new functionality and features, Gartner
expects between 15% and 20% of the Oracle customer base to begin
using Oracle Database 11g during the initial 12 months. Due to this
higher-than-normal early adoption rate, it reckons many software
vendors will certify Oracle Database 11g early, accelerating in
2008.