AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today
announced that Oracle Database 21c, the latest version of the
world's leading converged database, is available on Oracle
Cloud, including the Always Free tier of Oracle Autonomous
Database. Oracle Database 21c contains more than 200 new
innovations, including immutable blockchain tables, In-Database
JavaScript, native JSON binary data type, AutoML for in-database
machine learning (ML), and persistent memory store, as well as
enhancements for in-memory, graph processing performance, sharding,
multitenant, and security. Unlike other vendors' single-purpose
databases in the cloud or on-premises, Oracle Database 21c provides
support for multi-model, multi-workload, and multi-tenant
requirements – all within a single, modern converged database
engine. In addition, Oracle today announced the availability of
Oracle APEX (Application Express) Application Development, a new
low-code service for developing and deploying data-driven
enterprise applications quickly and easily. The browser-based,
low-code cloud service enables developers to create modern web apps
for desktops and mobile devices using an intuitive graphical
interface.
"Oracle Database 21c continues our strategy of delivering the
world's most powerful converged database engine," said Andrew Mendelsohn, executive vice president,
database server technologies, Oracle. "It provides leading JSON
document processing performance. It provides breakthrough
operational database performance with
Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory support. It
provides industry-leading analytic database capabilities with new
Self-Managing In-Memory Column Store, highest performance graph
processing, and AutoML for simplest machine learning model
development. It provides Immutable Blockchain Tables for
tamperproof SQL tables. Competing vendors require separate JSON
document, operational, analytic, graph, ML, and blockchain
databases and services to support these capabilities. Oracle's
converged database approach makes developers far more productive
when building new applications, and makes it easy to later evolve
applications to meet new business requirements."
What Analysts are Saying about Oracle Database
"With the launch of Database 21c, Oracle has elevated its
flagship database to a new level of convergence with broad support
for a wide variety of data types and workloads," said Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Data
Management Software, IDC. "The 200 new built-in innovations,
including immutable blockchain tables and AutoML for in-database
machine learning, elevate Oracle Database 21c to a new level of
functionality, eliminating the need for specialized, isolated cloud
services and tools to do those jobs. Users can avoid the
compounding of costs and operational complexity that comes with
each additional cloud service that organizations ordinarily use. In
this way, Oracle is effectively slicing away at this disjointed set
of services with a simplified, more technically elegant, and
integrated approach that is far better suited for the enterprise
needs of 2021."
"Oracle's latest converged database—Database 21c—focuses on
making life dramatically easier for both users and developers. It
supports and integrates an expanded range of data models and
workloads, and includes built-in machine learning to eliminate the
need for separate tooling and services by enabling organizations to
run inference directly on their database, right next to their data.
This is a refreshing contrast for organizations that leverage the
likes of AWS, which has more than a dozen different databases, each
requiring customers to deal with different APIs, ETL approaches and
data integration processes. Oracle Database 21c transcends the
barriers of a multi, isolated, and intrinsically non-converged,
database approach," said Mark
Peters, Principal Analyst & Practice Director, ESG.
What Customers are Saying about Oracle Database
Headquartered in London, Aon is
a US$46B global professional services
firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health
solutions. "We've never been able to see all of our Oracle sales
and marketing data in one, unified system. It's a real milestone.
Using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud,
we've seen performance boosted by 50X to 60X that makes response
times to complex sales queries from 500 power users much faster and
analytics costs are significantly lower than our on-premises
business intelligence tools," said Liesbeth
Mulder, Global Reporting Lead, Aon.
Angelini Pharma is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies
in Italy. "The Quinaryo XRing
solution has been an important step ahead in our IoT strategy to
experiment with a wearable device integrated with a data security
tool based on a blockchain table solution," said Pietro Berretoni,
Digital & Innovation Head, Angelini Pharma. "With Oracle
Blockchain Tables, the solution provides tamper-proof records that
can easily integrate with other applications without requiring a
complex new infrastructure. Oracle Database includes all the tools
we know and new features like Oracle Blockchain Tables that we can
leverage with XRing for sensible data collection."
New Innovations in Oracle Database 21c
Oracle Database 21c is the database engine that powers Oracle
database services in the cloud and on-premises, including Oracle
Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle
Exadata Database Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Exadata Database
Machine. The latest release includes more than 200 new innovations,
which extend database convergence to new use cases, optimize
performance, and improve developer, analyst, and data scientist
productivity. Key innovations include:
- Immutable Blockchain Tables: Blockchain Tables bring the
key security benefits of blockchain technology to enterprise
applications. Part of Oracle's Crypto-Secure Data Management,
Blockchain Tables provide immutable insert-only tables whose rows
are cryptographically chained together. By providing tamper
detection and prevention capabilities directly in the Oracle
Database, customers can protect against illicit changes by insiders
or hackers impersonating administrators or users. Blockchain Tables
are part of the converged database, accessed with standard SQL, and
support full analytics and transactions – making it orders of
magnitude easier to use, and more functional, than existing
blockchain implementations. Blockchain Tables are a free feature in
all Oracle Database editions.
- Native JSON Data Type: Oracle has provided powerful
SQL/JSON query and indexing support for many years. Database 21c
adds a new JSON data type representation, enabling up to 10x faster
scans and up to 4x faster update operations. Overall, these
improvements make Oracle SQL/JSON 2x faster than MongoDB and AWS
DocumentDB on the YCSB benchmark. As with previous releases, users
can mix or join JSON and other data types; index any JSON element
for fast OLTP; use declarative parallel SQL analytics across all
formats; and run complex joins across multiple JSON documents and
collections—all without any need for custom application code.
- AutoML for In-Database Machine Learning: Automatically
builds and compares machine-learning models at scale, and
facilitates the use of machine learning by non-experts. A new
AutoML user interface makes it easier for non-expert users to
leverage in-database machine learning. Oracle also added new
algorithms for anomaly detection, regression, and deep learning
analysis to our extensive library of popular, in-database machine
learning algorithms.
- In-Database JavaScript: Enables developers to work
efficiently in modern programming languages. The embedded Graal
Multilingual Engine allows JavaScript data processing code to run
inside the database – where the data resides – eliminating
expensive network round-trips. In addition, users can easily
execute SQL from within JavaScript code, and JavaScript data types
are automatically mapped to Oracle Database data.
- Persistent Memory Support: Stores database data and redo
logs in local Persistent Memory (PMEM), which significantly
improves the performance of IO-bound workloads. SQL runs directly
on data stored in the direct-mapped Persistent Memory file system,
eliminating the IO code path and the need for large buffer cache.
In addition, new database algorithms prevent partial or
inconsistent stores to Persistent Memory.
- Higher Performance Graph Models: Allows modelling of
data based on relationships, and enables exploration of connections
and patterns in social networks, IoT, and more. Further
improvements in memory optimization reduce the amount of memory
required to analyze larger graphs, which enables existing
applications to run faster with no changes. In addition, users can
create or extend graph algorithms using Java syntax, which can
execute as native algorithms since they are compiled with the same
optimizations.
- Database In-Memory Automation: Oracle supports
both row and column formats in the same table to allow analytics
and transactions to run simultaneously on the same table. Oracle
Database 21c introduces a Self-Managing In-Memory Column Store that
simplifies and improves efficiency by automatically managing the
placement and removal of objects in the In-Memory Column Store,
then tracks usage patterns and moves and evicts objects from the
column store. In addition, columns are automatically compressed
based on usage patterns. Oracle Database 21c also introduces new
in-memory vector join algorithms to speed up complex queries.
- Sharding Automation: Native Database Sharding
delivers hyperscale performance and availability while enabling
global enterprises to easily meet data sovereignty and data privacy
regulations. Data shards share no hardware or software, and can
reside on-premises or in the cloud. To simplify the design and use
of sharding, Oracle Database 21c includes a Sharding Advisor Tool
that assesses a database schema plus its workload characteristics
and then provides a sharded database design optimized for
performance, scalability, and availability. Backup and Recovery
across shards is also automated.
Hear what customers, partners, and analysts are saying about the
new Oracle Database 21c.
About Oracle
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applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at oracle.com.
Additional Resources
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Mendelsohn
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