Oracle says the new In-Memory Option it unveiled today will allow its 12c database customers to run analytic workloads 100 times faster than they previously could. The secret sauce is a new ...

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.

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’s announcement is an “in-memory option” to Oracle Database 12c, which Ovum expects will hit general release around mid-2014. Having already added a columnar data store alongside the row store, ...

The Oracle database automatically uses the new in-memory column format for analytic queries and the existing row format for OLTP operations.

So Oracle Database 12 c —introduced last year and now Oracle’s flagship relational database—now has an optional in-memory column store. 2. It’s actually more than in-memory.

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.

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 ...

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

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

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.