2 Options and Packs

Oracle Advanced Security

Oracle Advanced Security provides transparent data encryption of data stored in the database, the encryption of disk-based backups of the database, and also network encryption for data traveling across the network between the database and client or mid-tier applications. In addition it provides a complete suite of strong authentication services to Oracle Database. Network encryption is implemented using industry-standard data encryption and data integrity algorithms. This feature provides a choice of algorithms and cipher strengths for deployment. Strong authentication services support a comprehensive suite of industry-standard third-party authentication options. The authentication options include single sign-on services to the Oracle Database by interoperating with existing authentication frameworks and two-factor authentication choices such as smart cards and token cards.

If you wish to use Enterprise User Security in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, you no longer need to license the Oracle Advanced Security Option for password-based authentication. However, you must license Oracle Internet Directory (OID). If you wish to use stronger authentication alternatives (such as Kerberos or PKI) for Enterprise User Security, you must license Oracle Advanced Security and the Oracle Internet Directory (OID). Any Oracle Advanced Security licenses purchased on or before January 31, 2004, have restricted use of the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) to support enterprise user security. Please contact your Oracle sales representative for additional information.

Oracle Advanced Security includes the following features:

• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for columns

• RMAN backup encryption

• Database strong authentication support (PKI, Kerberos, Radius)

• Smartcard support (PKCS#11)

• Transport Layer Security (TLS) Support

• Native network encryption

• SSL/TLS network encryption

• SSL acceleration

• Certificate Revocation List (CRL) support

Oracle Content Database Suite

Oracle Content Database Suite provides core document management services on Oracle Database. Oracle Content Database Suite is an option to the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Features of this option include the following:

Repository:

• Oracle Content Database

• Oracle Content Server

Document Management:

• Oracle Content Database Archive Adapter for SAP

• Oracle Content Database Portlet Suite

• Oracle Content Integration Suite

• Oracle Desktop Integration Suite

• Oracle Dynamic Converter

• Oracle Drive

• Kofax Release Script

Oracle Data Mining

Oracle Data Mining enables you to build advanced business intelligence applications that mine corporate databases, reveal new patterns and relationships, and integrate that information into business applications. This option embeds data mining functionality into Oracle Database for making classifications, predictions, and associations. All model-building, scoring, and metadata management operations are accessible by way of either a Java or PL/SQL API.

The Oracle Data Mining option includes the following features:

APIs and GUIs Supported to Access Algorithms:

• PL/SQL API—for model build, model apply, and data transformations

• Java API—for model build, model apply & data transformations

• Oracle Data Miner (GUI)

• Spreadsheet Add-in for Predictive Analytics

Algorithm Category and Supported Algorithms:

• Classification

  • Naive Bayes

  • Decision Trees

  • Support Vector Machines

• Regression

  • Support Vector Machines

• Anomaly Detection

  • One Class Support Vector Machines

• Attribute Importance

  • Minimum Description Length

• Association Rules

  • A Priori

• Clustering

  • Hierarchical K-Means Clustering

  • Hierarchical O-Clustering

• Predictive Analytics (PL/SQL Packages)

  • Predict

  • Explain

• Feature Extraction

  • Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Oracle Database Vault

Oracle Database Vault lets you control who, when, and where data and applications can be accessed—protecting your business against the most common security threat: malicious internal users. Enforcing separation of duties, even among administrators, Oracle Database Vault additionally serves as a powerful preventive control to help comply with today's stringent compliance and privacy requirements.

• It improves your ability to meet compliance requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations that mandate control of access to, and release of, sensitive information

• It controls access to application and database data, even by super-users and other highly privileged users

• It enforces multi factor authorization via flexible business rules

• It shows who is accessing what and when via over three dozen out-of-the-box security reports

Oracle Database Vault is an option for Oracle Database 10g. However, it has also been provided for an earlier release as well, specifically Oracle9i Database Release 2 (9.2.0.8), on a limited number of platforms. Please contact your Oracle Sales Representative if you are interested in Oracle Database Vault as an option on Oracle9i Database.

The Oracle Database Vault option includes the following features:

• Realms

• Separation of Duty

• Factors

• Command Rules

• Rule Sets

Oracle In-Memory Database Cache

Oracle In-Memory Database Cache enables you to improve application transaction response time by caching a performance-critical subset of tables and table fragments from an Oracle database to the application tier. The table fragments are described through an extended SQL syntax and are cached into Oracle In-Memory Database Cache tables. Cache tables can be specified as read-only or updatable. Applications read and update the cache tables using standard SQL. Cache table hierarchy for related tables with foreign key constraints is maintained for data consistency. Automatic data synchronization between the cache and the Oracle database is provided.

Cache tables are managed like regular relational database tables within the TimesTen In-Memory Database. Thus, Oracle In-Memory Database Cache offers applications the full generality and functionality of a relational database, the transparent maintenance of cache consistency with the Oracle Database, and the real-time performance of an in-memory database. This Database option is ideal for caching performance-critical subsets of an Oracle database for improved response time in the application tier.

Oracle In-Memory Database Cache includes the following features:

• Static and dynamic caching of Oracle database tables

• Automatic data refresh from Oracle database to the in-memory cache

• Automatic transaction write-through from the in-memory cache to the Oracle database

• Automatic data aging with user-defined policies

• Standard SQL functionality and database transaction semantics

• Transactional replication with Active-Standby Pair topology

• Real-time change notification using Transaction Log API (XLA)

For the purposes of licensing Oracle In-Memory Database Cache, only the processors on which the TimesTen In-Memory Database component of the In-Memory Database Cache software is installed and/or running are counted for the purpose of determining the number of licenses required.

Oracle Label Security

Oracle Label Security provides sophisticated and flexible security based on row labels for fine-grained access control. This option employs labeling concepts used by government, defense, and commercial organizations to protect sensitive information and provide data separation. It includes a powerful tool to manage policies, labels, and user label authorizations.

By default, Oracle Label Security is configured to use Oracle Database for all policy management. Users interested in centralized policy management using the Oracle identity management infrastructure must additionally license Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite. Please contact your Oracle sales representative for additional information.

The Oracle Label Security option includes the following features:

• Label based access control (LBAC)

• Multi-level security (MLS)

• Label factors for Database Vault (Confidential, Sensitive)

• User label authorizations (Confidential, Sensitive:PII)

• Data labels (Sensitive: PII)

Oracle On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)

Oracle OLAP is a scalable, high-performance calculation engine with fully integrated management and administration for delivering analytic applications. Fully integrated in the database, this option provides a complete set of analytic functions. Predictive analysis can be used, for example, to forecast market trends, predict product manufacturing requirements, and build enterprise budgeting and financial analysis systems. Using complex, multidimensional queries and calculations, information such as market shares and net present value can be derived. The Java OLAP API provides efficient object-orientation for building applications that require complex analytic queries.

The Oracle OLAP option includes the following features:

• OLAP Cube Definition, Storage, and Querying

• OLAP API and Metadata

• Analytic Workspaces

• SQL Access to OLAP Cubes

Oracle Partitioning

Oracle Partitioning enhances the data management environment for OLTP, data mart, data warehouse, and content management applications by adding significant manageability, availability, and performance capabilities to large underlying database tables and indexes. Oracle Partitioning lets you store large tables as individually managed smaller pieces, while retaining a single application-level view of the data. Range, hash, list, and composite (range combined with hash and range combined with list) partitioning methods are supported.

The Oracle Partitioning option includes the following features:

• Table Partitions and Subpartitions

• Local Index Partitions and Subpartitions

• Global Index Partitions and Subpartitions

• Range Partitioning

• Hash Partitioning

• List Partitioning

• Composite Partitioning

• Subpartition Template

• Fast Partition Split

• Partition Exchange

Oracle Real Application Clusters

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) is a database computing environment that harnesses the processing power of multiple interconnected computers using clustering technology. RAC provides unlimited scalability and high availability for all applications. RAC makes the database highly available in the presence of computer hardware or software failure: in the event any computer in the cluster fails, the database continues to provide service on the surviving computers in the cluster. RAC provides scalable performance: as demand for database throughput grows, additional computers can be added to the database cluster with no downtime. RAC supports a single-system image for ease of management. RAC also provides a complete and integrated stack of clustering software on all platforms; third-party clusterware software is not required. Finally, RAC provides cluster file system capability on the Windows and Linux platforms.

Oracle Real Application Clusters includes the following features:

• Real Application Clusters

• Cluster Verification Utility

• Automatic Workload Management

• Connection Load Balancing

• Fast Connection Failover

• Hot Cluster Failover

Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)

The license restrictions for Standard Edition must be adhered to. The maximum number of CPUs defined is for the entire cluster; it is not a per node maximum.

Oracle Clusterware is required; third-party clusterware is not permitted.

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is required for the storage of:

• Database data files

• Online logs

• Archive logs

• Control files

• Server parameter files (spfiles)

• Flash Recovery Area

RAW disk partitions are required for:

• Voting disk

• Oracle Cluster Registry

Local storage must be used for:

• Oracle Home

• Trace files

• Dump files

No Oracle-maintained copies of any of the above files can exist in any other locations, with the following exception: Customers who want to manually script maintenance of a standby database can create a second copy of their archive logs outside of ASM on a local file system only, designated by the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_n parameter.

RMAN backups of files can reside on either a local or network mounted file system.

No other cluster software can be installed on the system, including, OCFS, OCFS2, third-party clusterware, third-party cluster volume managers, and third-party cluster file systems.

Oracle Real Application Testing

The Oracle Real Application Testing option comprises a suite of features that help protect database applications from undesirable impact of routine changes, such as hardware/software upgrades, configuration changes, platform migrations, and so forth. These features enable comprehensive testing of real-world applications so that any issues resulting from system changes are fully identified and addressed during testing, and when a change is finally made to the production system unexpected problems are minimized.

The Oracle Real Application Testing option includes the following features:

• Database Replay

• SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA)

• SQL Tuning Sets (STS)

In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses for the Oracle Real Application Testing option.

Only partial Oracle Real Application Testing functionality is available with this release of Oracle Database. This functionality is provided is so that you can use this option to test database upgrades to Oracle Database 11g from release10.2.0.4 onward. The functionality available is:

• Database Replay: Only Workload Capture capability is supported.

• SQL Performance Analyzer: Only SQL capture into SQL Tuning Set capability is supported.

The above functionality can be accessed by Enterprise Manager as well as through the database server command-line APIs. The use of either interface requires an Oracle Real Application Testing option license.

Command-Line APIs

The Real Application Testing features can be accessed by way of the following database server APIs and command-line interfaces:

• The DBMS_WORKLOAD_CAPTURE package is part of the Real Application Testing option.

• The following subprograms of the DBMS_SQLTUNE package provide an interface to manage SQL tuning sets and are part of the Real Application Testing option as well as the Database Tuning Pack:

  • ADD_SQLSET_REFERENCE

  • CAPTURE_CURSOR_CACHE_SQLSETS

  • CREATE_SQLSET

  • CREATE_STGTAB_SQLSET

  • DELETE_SQLSET

  • DROP_SQLSET

  • LOAD_SQLSET

  • PACK_STGTAB_SQLSET

  • REMOVE_SQLSET_REFERENCE

  • SELECT_CURSOR_CACHE

  • SELECT_SQLSET

  • SELECT_WORKLOAD_REPOSITORY

  • UNPACK_STGTAB_SQLSET

  • UPDATE_SQLSET

Oracle Records DB

Oracle Records DB supports regulatory compliance and risk management through secure, policy-based retention and disposition management and access control of content stored within Oracle Content Database Suite and other repositories.

Oracle Content Database Suite is a prerequisite for Records DB. You must license Oracle Content Database Suite in order to license Oracle Records DB.

Oracle Spatial

Oracle Spatial provides advanced spatial analysis features for complex geographic information systems (GIS) applications, enterprise applications, and location-based services applications. It augments the Oracle Locator feature, which provides storage, analysis, and indexing of location data accessible through SQL and standard programming languages, supporting seamless integration of location data into enterprise applications, and use of any leading third-party GIS tool to access location data. Oracle Spatial advanced features include GeoRaster for storage, indexing, and analysis of image and gridded raster data, such as satellite imagery and remotely sensed data; a network data model that allows users to model and analyze link-node networks (graphs) for applications; a topology data model and schema to persistently manage topology; a fully functional geocoding engine and routing engine; and location-based analysis functions for business intelligence applications, including location-based classification, binning, association, and correlation. Oracle Spatial also supports spatial data manipulation and analysis such as buffer generation, area/distance calculations, linear referencing, and more.

The Oracle Spatial option includes the following features:

• Selected Spatial Functions

• Linear Referencing System

• GeoRaster Storage, Indexing and Querying

• Network Data Model

• Topology Data Model

• Spatial Analysis and Mining Functions

• Spatial Routing Engine

• Geocoding Engine

• Semantic Content Storage, Indexing and Querying (RDF/OWL Support)

Oracle Warehouse Builder Enterprise ETL Option

The Enterprise ETL option enables large scale, complex ETL deployments. Developers can incorporate advanced functionality such as retaining history for dimensions, reusing mapping code, performing interactive lineage and impact analysis, and defining custom types of objects in the repository. This option also enables the rapid movement of large amounts of data, and the construction of advanced process flows.

The Oracle Warehouse Builder Enterprise ETL Option includes the following features:

• Slowing Changing Dimensions (SCD) Type 2 and 3

• XML Files as a target

• Transportable ETL modules, multiple configurations, and pluggable mappings

• Operators for pluggable mapping, pluggable mapping input signature, pluggable mapping output signature

• Design Environment Support for RAC

• Target load ordering

• Seeded spatial and streams transformations

• Process Flow Activity templates

• Process Flow variables support

• Process Flow looping activities such as For Loop and While Loop

• Process Flow Route and Notification activities

• Metadata lineage and impact analysis

• Metadata change propagation

• Schedulable Mappings and Process Flows

• Metadata Extensibility

• Deployment to Discoverer EUL

• Deployment to Oracle BI Beans catalog

Oracle Warehouse Builder Data Quality Option

The Data Quality option enables you to convert raw data into quality information. Developers and data librarians can gain insight into their data and identify previously unknown data quality problems. Subsequently, developers can define rules and generate mappings that correct the data. Based on the data rules, developers can also create data auditors to ensure the quality of incoming data on a repeated basis.

The Oracle Warehouse Builder Data Quality option includes the following features:

• Data Profiling

• Data Rules

• Data Auditor Monitor Usage in Process Flows

• Data Corrections

Oracle Warehouse Builder Connector—E-Business Suite

The Warehouse Builder Connector to E-Business Suite provides access to the technical and business metadata within Oracle E-Business Suite. Subsequently, you can build mappings and process flows that either source or target Oracle E-Business Suite. The connector also facilitates deployment to Oracle Concurrent Manager and access to Oracle E-Business Suite at execution-time.

Oracle Warehouse Builder Connector—PeopleSoft

With Warehouse Builder Connector to PeopleSoft, you can connect to and then extract data and metadata from PeopleSoft applications. Subsequently, you can include PeopleSoft objects as sources or targets in Warehouse Builder mappings, create process flows, and generate SQL code. This connector can operate with non-Oracle databases after you establish the appropriate transparent gateways to those databases.

Oracle Warehouse Builder Connector—SAP R/3 Connector

With the Warehouse Builder Connector to SAP R/3, you can connect to and then extract data and metadata from SAP R/3. You can access both the technical and business metadata in the SAP R/3 application. Subsequently, you can include SAP R/3 objects in Warehouse Builder mappings and process flows and generate ABAP code. This connector supports transporting of ABAP code and the use of substitution variables.

Oracle Change Management Pack

The Oracle Change Management Pack enables administrators to evaluate, plan, and implement database schema changes. Using the Change Management Pack, administrators can investigate and track changes, compare and synchronize objects and schemas, modify schema objects, evaluate the change impact, and if required undo changes that have been made previously. The Change Management Pack makes change management simple and efficient and minimizes chances for error, thereby reducing the opportunity for data loss and system down-time.

The Change Management Pack includes the following features:

• Reverse engineer database and schema definitions

• Capture and version baselines

• Compare databases and schemas, or baselines

• Copy database objects with data, with a subset of the data, or without data

• Update database object definitions (ALTER TABLE)

• Synchronize objects and schemas

• Evaluate the impact of changes

• Clone or propagate application schemas

In order to use the features listed above you must install the Java console version of Enterprise Manager, which you can find in the /companion directory of the installation medium. The use of this interface requires licensing of the Change Management Pack.

Oracle Configuration Management Pack

The Oracle Configuration Management Pack automates the time-consuming and often error prone process of software configuration, software and hardware inventory tracking, patching, cloning and policy management. The Configuration Management Pack includes the following features:

• Database and Host Configuration

• Deployments

• Search configuration

• Compare configuration

• Policies, including Security checks and scoring

In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses for the Configuration Management Pack. The Configuration Management Pack functionality can be accessed by the Enterprise Manager and through the Enterprise Manager repository views. The use of either interface requires licensing of the Configuration Management Pack.

In earlier releases, three additional features were part of this pack: Patch Deployment (Patch Database and View Patch Cache, Patch staging), Clone Oracle Home, and Clone Database. These features are no longer part of the Configuration Management Pack. They are now part of the Oracle Provisioning Pack, which is licensed with Enterprise Manager. However, if you have previously licensed the Configuration Management Pack for Oracle Database, you are entitled to use these features without licensing the Provisioning Pack.

Oracle Diagnostic Pack

The Oracle Diagnostic Pack provides automatic performance diagnostic and advanced system monitoring functionality. The Diagnostic Pack includes the following features:

• Automatic Workload Repository

• Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)

• Performance monitoring (database and host)

• Event notifications: notification methods, rules, and schedules

• Event history and metric history (database and host)

• Blackouts

• Dynamic metric baselines

• Monitoring templates

• Memory-access based performance monitoring

In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses for the Diagnostic Pack. The Diagnostics Pack functionality can be accessed by Enterprise Manager links as well as through the database server command-line APIs. The use of either interface requires a Diagnostic Pack license.

Oracle Tuning Pack

The Oracle Tuning Pack provides database administrators with expert performance management for the Oracle environment, including SQL tuning and storage optimizations. The Oracle Diagnostic Pack is a prerequisite product to the Oracle Tuning Pack. Therefore, to use the Tuning Pack, you must also have a Diagnostic Pack. The Tuning Pack includes the following features:

• SQL Access Advisor

• SQL Tuning Advisor

• SQL Tuning Sets

• Reorganize objects

In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses for the Tuning Pack. The Tuning Pack functionality can be accessed by the Enterprise Manager links as well as through the database server command-line APIs. The use of either interface requires licensing of the Tuning Pack.

Oracle Database Lite

Oracle Database Lite Client Oracle Database Lite Client is a small general-purpose relational database used for mobile and embedded applications. Oracle Database Lite client can be used as a standalone database in embedded hardware and software applications or may be used as the data store for disconnected mobile applications when used with the Oracle Database Lite Mobile Server.

Each user must purchase a Named User Plus license.

Oracle Database Lite Mobile Server Oracle Database Lite Mobile Server is middle-tier infrastructure for mobile and disconnected applications that performs data synchronization and provides management for applications, users, and devices. Oracle Database Lite Mobile Server can use the Oracle Database Lite client as a data store for mobile and disconnected applications, providing efficient, reliable, and secure data management running locally on mobile and small-footprint devices (handhelds, notebooks, communicators, and so forth). The Lite Mobile Server supports scalable synchronization of data between devices and an Oracle Database.

Oracle Database Mobile Server is licensed by CPU.

Oracle Programmer

Oracle Programmer is a separate Oracle product that provides a programmatic interface to any edition of Oracle Database for application programmers. Programmer provides a rich set of interfaces for developers who build enterprise applications that access and manipulate Oracle Database. This product is licensed separately from the Oracle Database products. Oracle Programmer is a family of the following products:

• Three embedded SQL-style interfaces: precompilers, SQL*Module, and SQLJ

• Two utilities to generate host-language bindings from database schemas: Object Type Translator and JPub

Oracle Secure Backup

Oracle Secure Backup provides tape backup management for the entire Oracle environment. You can use Oracle Secure Backup to back up Oracle databases and host file systems to tape through direct-attached or network-attached tape drives. Oracle Secure Backup provides centralized management and control over backup and restore operations.

Oracle Secure Backup is available in the following forms, each suitable for different development and deployment scenarios:

Oracle Secure Backup  For environments that consist of many servers, Oracle Secure Backup offers high performance data protection from server to tape. This protection is crucial for local and offsite storage of business-critical data.

Oracle Secure Backup Express  For environments that consist of a single server, Oracle Secure Backup Express offers the same tape backup functionality as Oracle Secure Backup, but is limited to a single host with one direct-attached tape drive.