

Old version, no longer maintained: Oracle v2įirst commercially available SQL-based RDBMS implementing some basic SQL queries and simple joins Oracle's RDBMS release numbering has used the following codes: Note that there was no v1 of Oracle Database, as co-founder Larry Ellison "knew no one would want to buy version 1". Prior to the release of Oracle8i Database, no suffixes featured in Oracle Database naming conventions. Oracle Database 10g and Oracle9i Database) have used suffixes of "g" and "i" which stand for "Grid" and "Internet" respectively. The "c" in the current release, Oracle Database 21c, stands for "Cloud". Oracle products follow a custom release-numbering and -naming convention. The name Oracle comes from the code-name of a CIA-funded project Ellison had worked on while formerly employed by Ampex. SDL developed the original version of the Oracle software. Larry Ellison and his two friends and former co-workers, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, started a consultancy called Software Development Laboratories (SDL) in 1977. It may be run on third party servers as well as on Oracle hardware ( Exadata on-prem, on Oracle Cloud or at Cloud at Customer ) Oracle Database is available by several service providers on-prem, on-cloud, or as hybrid cloud installation. It is a database commonly used for running online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW) and mixed (OLTP & DW) database workloads. Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle DBMS or simply as Oracle) is a multi-model database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation. 13 February 2019 2 years ago ( 13 February 2019)
