Oracle Database
The enterprise relational database: decades of features, Real Application Clusters and a price to match. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Oracle
- Created by
- Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, Ed Oates
- First release
- 1979
- License
- Proprietary
- Open source
- No
- Pricing
- Free with paid plans
- Website
- https://www.oracle.com/database
- Written in
- C
- Data model
- Relational, Document, Graph, Vector
- Storage layout
- Hybrid row and column
- Workload
- Both (HTAP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- SQL, PL/SQL
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Strict
- Deployment
- Server, Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Replication
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Fast inserts, direct-path loads); Read: fast (Mature optimizer, in-memory column store); Update: fast (In-place updates with undo); Delete: fast (Fast deletes)