Comments on: Guess How Many Database Editions Oracle Has

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Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:00:33 +0000

[...] Awad was not at UKOUG. Perhaps he was immobilized by his bafflement over how many database editions Oracle has. With the help of those who left comments, the answer seems to be: five. Until one of them pipes up [...]

By: Gints Plivna

Gints Plivna — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:29:18 +0000

Yeah Oracle Lite isn’t edition as previously mentioned. But as I’ve understod for one or another reason Oracle as company has at least 11 different databases Oracle DB Inno DB TimesTen Berkley DB Oracle Lite Coherence RDB CODASYL Express Server Hyperion Essbase Stellent Links to each one of them one can found here

By: Ontario Emperor

Ontario Emperor — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:49:14 +0000

Our company has deployed some of our smaller systems on Oracle Database Standard Edition One since Oracle Database 10g came out (I believe that’s when Standard Edition One was introduced). Our initial 8i implementations were on Enterprise Edition with Partitioning, but that’s an expensive proposition (especially since our market is price competitive), so we began exploring other options. For some small customers, Standard Edition One works just fine.

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:52:29 +0000

Thanks Justin. Yes this page is very useful too. In fact, I do link to it in my post above.

By the way, I forgot to mention that, by default, Oracle Lite is automatically installed and used as the dehydration database when installing the Oracle SOA suite using the basic configuration (Windows only).

By: Justin Kestelyn

Justin Kestelyn — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:39:51 +0000

Eddie, this is a really useful page too:

http://www.oracle.com/database/product_editions.html

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:19:40 +0000

@Laurent: duh! of course the fifth edition. @John: Makes sense, and it's mainly used on mobile devices. Thanks.

By: John Flack

John Flack — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:21:19 +0000

Oracle Lite isn’t included because it doesn’t have the same base code as the other Oracle editions that you mentioned. It is really another database product altogether, but with some capabilities that let you use it with a mainstream Oracle edition, like the ability to link to Oracle to get a snapshot and merge changes with the source table in Oracle. Think of it like Oracle RDB or Oracle TimesTen.

By: Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:09:19 +0000

The fifth edition is unfortunately not available on Linux. Personal Edition is the cheapest way for an independant consultant to get access to patches and to Metalink