Oracle Database Technology – the Oracle server versioning
Oracle Version 2 – first commercial RDBMS
Oracle Version 3 – rewritten in the C programming language
Oracle Version 4 – improved query performance
Oracle Version 5 – added a networking stack for client-server computing
Oracle Version 6 – OLTP improvements, Oracle parallel server
Oracle Version 7 – first “Modern” Oracle
- New security model – roles and privileges.
- PL/SQL and sql improvements.
- Datatypes for video and images.
- 64-bit architectures.
Oracle Version 8 –
- The object-relational database.
- Java support
- Linux support
Oracle Version 8i – The “Internet Database”
- New suffixing standard
- More support for HTTP, HTML and Java
- Function- based indexes
- Materialized view
Oracle Version 9i
- Over 750 new features
- Oracle Real Application Cluster(RAC)
- Began regular Security Patches
Oracle Version 10g
- “g” for Grid computing
- Improvements in RAC
- Automatic Storage Management-ASM
Oracle Version 11g – After 4 year
- Even more features
- Real Application Testing
- Online patching
Oracle Version 12c– The cloud database
- Six-year development cycle
- Multi-tenant architecture
- Virtualization because a part of the database
Oracle Version Numbering
12.1.0.1.0
12: – Measure release number
1: – Minor release number (it is maximum 2 only not more than yet)
0: – App Server release number
1: – Patch level number
0: – Specific number
