Companies that run SAP’s applications should know that most of those applications can perform much better on Oracle Database than on any other database platform, including HANA.

Oracle's summer of product launches continues as Database 12c becomes generally available. Will all applications go in-memory?

The latest release of Oracle Database (12.1.0.2) offers a unique set of features that portend increases in application workload execution, especially for analytics and data warehousing queries. This ...

Oracle on Thursday rolled out an updated version of its TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a key component of its upcoming Exalytics appliance as well as a competitor to SAP’s HANA platform ...

Oracle, which took the wraps off its long-awaited in-memory database technology earlier this week, is set to beat back challengers to its database business, according to one top partner.

Oracle is taking flak over the in-memory database option in Oracle Database 12c, released publicly on Wednesday. The trouble began when Kevin Closson, formerly the performance architect in Oracle's ...

Ellison declared that this in-memory option means databases can process billions of rows and columns at "ungodly speeds." ...

The 12C In-Memory Option is aimed at enabling ISV applications to accelerate performance by orders of magnitude for several use cases.

Oracle Database In-Memory automatically maintains data in both the existing Oracle row format for OLTP operations, and a new, purely in-memory column format optimized for analytical processing.

Using Oracle's 'dual-format in-memory database' option, every transaction is recorded in row format simultaneously with writing the same data into a columnar database.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has thrown his gauntlet down in the burgeoning market for in-memory computing, announcing a new option for Oracle's flagship database at the OpenWorld conference in San ...