Oracle
could be gearing up to make an anticipated in-memory computing option
for its flagship 12c database generally available after hyping it for
the better part of a year, judging from an upcoming appearance by CEO
Larry Ellison.
On June 10, Ellison
will host a webcast titled "The Future of the Database Begins Soon,"
which will focus on the in-memory option. "It will be possible to
perform TRUE real-time, ad-hoc, analytic queries on your organization's
business data as it exists at that moment and receive the results
immediately," the notice for the webcast states.
"Imagine
your sales team being able to know the total sales they have made as of
right now -- not last week, or even last night, but right now. "That
focus on business scenarios is a shift from some of the messaging
Ellison used when discussing the in-memory option at the OpenWorld
conference in September.
There, he
primarily talked up the "ungodly" performance gains the in-memory
technology will provide to existing applications built on Oracle's
database. "Flip a switch and all of your applications run much, much
faster," he said at the time. "Every application you wrote, every
application you bought, runs without a single change."
The
in-memory option will speed up both analytic and transaction processing
workloads, Oracle has said. In-memory databases place information in
RAM, rather than reading it off of slower disk storage, providing those
performance gains.
Oracle has had
in-memory technology for years, such as TimesTen, but hasn't made the
approach a central part of its database strategy until now.
During
Oracle's third-quarter earnings call in March, Ellison said the
in-memory option could be launched as late as August, but the webcast's
timing could indicate the company's development teams are ahead of
schedule.
"We encourage you to
attend the June 10 event for specifics of the announcement," an Oracle
spokeswoman said when asked whether Ellison will announce the general
availability of the product.
The
in-memory option will give Oracle a primary weapon to fend off
defections to SAP's Hana in-memory database. Many SAP customers run the
vendor's Business Suite software on Oracle; SAP has ported the Suite to
run on Hana and is encouraging customers to make the switch.
The
move will also help Oracle keep pace with Microsoft, Teradata, IBM and a
number of smaller companies that are also pushing in-memory database
technologies.
In addition, the
in-memory option could help drive uptake of 12c from customers still
running earlier database versions, such as 11g Release 2.Hundreds of
customers have been testing the feature, Ellison said during the
third-quarter earnings call.
Typically,
most Oracle database customers wait until the second major release of a
product cycle to upgrade, preferring to let early adopters deal with
any lingering bugs.
But between the
in-memory option and a previously released multitenancy feature, "we
think 12c will be the most rapidly adopted feature in many years,"
Ellison said on the call.
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