Oracle has unveiled Database 11g Release 2, which it claims to improve the overall performance of the database application and helps organisations to deliver better information throughout the enterprise at lower cost.
The company said that the new release includes Real Application Clusters (RAC) that delivers grid plug and play, and new server pooling capabilities that enable organisations to reduce their server costs by streamlining the provisioning and management of consolidated database grids.
Oracle RAC One Node, a new Database option, allows customers to consolidate their less mission critical database environments on the grid with the redundancy provided by Real Application Clusters, Oracle said.
According to Oracle, the combination of Database 11g Release 2 Advanced Compression and Partitioning supports the reduction of storage costs by compressing data as much as 2-4x and simplifying use of lower cost storage tiers. Oracle Automatic Storage Management is extended to support a general-purpose cluster file system to help customers reduce their storage management costs.
The company said that the Database 11g Release 2 Automatic Storage Management, Real Application Clusters, and Active Data Guard allow storage and server resources to be used for both fault tolerance and running production workloads, keeping servers and storage from sitting idle waiting for failures.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2, in combination with the Oracle Database Machine, can deliver up to 10x faster query performance. Its automated self-management capabilities can help to double database administrator productivity over older versions of Oracle Database, and reduce the time required to upgrade from prior releases, the company claims.
Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database server technologies at Oracle, said: “Our customers want features that offer better performance and availability, lower IT costs and ways to deliver better information to their business users. The availability of Release 2 completes the vision of Oracle Database 11g to address today’s business and IT challenges, and continues our strategy of helping customers deliver the highest quality of service at lower cost.”
