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What Is Oracle Database?

What Is Oracle Database?

Oracle Database (Oracle DB) is a relational database management system (RDBMS) from Oracle Corporation. 

Businesses require scalable, high-performance databases now more than ever. Many leverage Oracle DB  to drive business applications for online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and business analytics. IT teams also need on-demand performance from these databases to serve development, testing, analytics, and business-continuity needs.

How Oracle DB is Faster with All-flash

We don’t always think about the hardware supporting our database management solutions, but it matters. The more compute and storage resources your RDBMS consumes, the harder it is on your IT infrastructure. If you’re still working with a data lake of spinning disk drives, it’s only a matter of time until you encounter a hardware failure or I/O bottleneck.

Fortunately, data storage technology is constantly evolving. NVMe storage is now more affordable and accessible than ever before. Here are some ways NVMe storage solutions can enhance Oracle DB:

  • Faster I/O transfer speeds
  • Lower latency for your Oracle workloads
  • Massive parallelism with over 64K queues for I/O operations
  • Improved reliability (i.e., no mechanical moving parts)

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Why Choose Pure Storage for Your Oracle DB Deployment?

Designed to deliver the full potential of NVMe storage to enterprise deployments, Pure Storage® all-flash arrays can help you maximize the speed, scalability, and agility of your Oracle environment. Advantages of using Pure with Oracle DB include:

  • All the benefits of NVMe storage
  • 99.9999% block storage availability for your Oracle DB deployments with FlashArray™
  • Always-on encryption and up to 45TB/hour recovery with Rapid Restore
  • Up to 90% reduction in time to copy and clone
  • Streamlined integrations with Oracle technologies including Oracle Virtual Machine (VM) and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)

Through a partnership, Pure Storage and Oracle collaborate closely to align technology development and interoperability with Oracle applications and workloads.

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