2 Options and Packs

Oracle Active Data Guard

Oracle Active Data Guard enhances the Quality of Service (QoS) for production databases by off-loading resource-intensive operations to one or more standby databases, which are synchronized copies of the production database. With Oracle Active Data Guard, a physical standby database can be used for real-time reporting, with minimal latency between reporting and production data. Compared with traditional replication methods, Active Data Guard is very simple to use, transparently supports all datatypes, and offers very high performance. Oracle Active Data Guard also allows backup operations to be off-loaded to the standby database, and be done very fast using intelligent incremental backups. Oracle Active Data Guard thus is a very effective way to insulate interactive users and critical business tasks on the production system from the impact of such long-running operations. Oracle Active Data Guard provides the additional benefit of high availability and disaster protection by quickly failing over to the standby database in the event of a planned or an unplanned outage at the production site.

The Active Data Guard option contains the following features:

• Physical Standby with Real-time Query

• Fast Incremental Backup on Physical Standby

If a physical standby database in a Data Guard configuration has any of the above features enabled, then the Active Data Guard option must be licensed for every such physical standby, and also for the primary database.

Oracle Advanced Compression

Oracle Advanced Compression provides comprehensive data compression capabilities to compress all types of data, backups, and network traffic in an application transparent manner. With Advanced Compression, Oracle includes table compression targeted at OLTP workloads, resulting in reduced storage consumption and improved query performance while incurring minimal write performance overhead. Advanced Compression can be used to compress any unstructured content using SecureFile Compression. Deduplication provides the ability to automatically eliminate redundant copies of SecureFile data. A new faster compression algorithm is included in the Advanced Compression to speed up RMAN backups. With Advanced Compression, Data Pump exports can now be compressed to reduce disk space requirements. Finally, Data Guard can compress redo data resulting in reduced network traffic and faster gap resolution.

The Oracle Advanced Compression option contains the following features:

• Data Guard Network Compression

• Data Pump Compression

• Fast RMAN Compression

• OLTP Table Compression

• SecureFile Compression and Deduplication

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

• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for tablespace

• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for securefiles

• DataPump Export File encryption

• RMAN backup encryption

• Hardware Security Module (HSM) TDE Master Key Protection

• 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.

Oracle Content Database Suite includes the following features:

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

  • Logistic Regression

• Regression

  • Multivariate Linear 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

  • Profile

• 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 11g. However, it has also been provided for earlier releases as well, including 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 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)

The OLAP option to Oracle Database is a full-featured OLAP server embedded in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Oracle OLAP cube datatypes improve business intelligence tools and applications by providing excellent query performance, rich analysis, and fast incremental updates of data sets. OLAP cubes are easily queried by SQL-based business intelligence tools through cube-organized materialized views and OLAP cube views. Cube-organized materialized views provide an alternative summary management solution to table-based materialized views. As with a table-based materialized view, an OLAP cube is accessed by SQL-based tools transparently using the automatic SQL query rewrite feature of the materialized views. SQL-based tools can access both summary data and rich analytic content directly through OLAP cube views. Multidimensional OLAP tools can provides a full-dimensional OLAP experience using the Oracle OLAP multidimensional API to cubes. A single OLAP cube can service each of these types of applications.

The Oracle OLAP option includes the following features:

• OLAP Cube Definition, Storage, and Querying

• OLAP API and Metadata

• OLAP Cube Materialized Views

• 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.

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

• Interval Partitioning

• Reference Partitioning

• System Partitioning

• Virtual Column-based Partitioning

• Composite Partitioning

• Subpartition Template

• Fast Partition Split

• Partition Exchange

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) is a database computing environment that harnesses the processing power of multiple interconnected computers using clustering technology. Oracle RAC provides unlimited scalability and high availability for all applications. Oracle 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. Oracle RAC provides scalable performance: as demand for database throughput grows, additional computers can be added to the database cluster with no downtime. Oracle RAC supports a single-system image for ease of management. Oracle RAC also provides a complete and integrated stack of clustering software on all platforms; third-party clusterware software is not required. Finally, Oracle RAC provides cluster file system capability on the Windows, Linux, and Solaris 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 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 unexpected problems encountered when a change is finally made in the production systems 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, with one exception: SQL Tuning Sets (STS) can be used if you have licensed either the Tuning Pack or Oracle Real Application Testing. Oracle Real Application Testing 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.

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

• Spatial Web Services (new with 11g)

• 3-D Geometry, Surface, and Point Cloud Storage, Indexing and Querying (new with 11g)

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

Oracle Total Recall

Oracle Total Recall provides the ability to transparently track and archive historical changes to all data stored in an Oracle database. History data is stored in a secure and highly optimized storage and can be accessed in a seamless manner using Flashback Queries. With Total Recall, you can enable history tracking on tables instantaneously and retain the history data any length of time. In addition, Total Recall provides for easier manageability by automating purge of historical data based on specified retention policy. History tracking is non-intrusive and completely transparent to applications.

The Oracle Total Recall option includes the following feature:

• Flashback Data Archive

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)

• Active Session History (ASH)

• 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

• Supporting functionality to perform per stream bottleneck detection and per component top wait event analysis

In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses for the Diagnostic Pack. A new initialization parameter, CONTROL_MANAGEMENT_PACK_ACCESS, controls access to the Diagnostic Pack and Tuning Pack. This parameter can be set to one of three values:

• DIAGNOSTIC+TUNING: Diagnostic Pack and Tuning Pack functionally is enabled in the database server.

• DIAGNOSTIC: Only Diagnostic Pack functionality is enabled in the server.

• NONE: Diagnostic Pack and Tuning pack functionally is disabled in the database server.

The Diagnostic 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 Provisioning Pack

The Provisioning Pack for Database automates the deployment of software, applications, and patches for the database and underlying operating system. It makes critical data center operations easy, efficient and scalable resulting in lower operational risk and cost of ownership. The ability to provision the entire software stack that includes the operating system and the database, supplemented by comprehensive reporting tools make Provisioning Pack for Database an extremely significant entity in overall System Management space.

The Oracle Provisioning Pack contains the following features:

• Automated patching for Oracle database products and the operating system

• Critical Patch Facility

• Software Image Library

• Bare metal OS provisioning

• Single instance and RAC provisioning

• Single click cluster scale up and scale down

• Single instance-to-RAC conversion

• CLI driven runtime

• Enterprise Security Advisor

• Provisioning and deployment reports

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

• Automatic SQL Tuning

• SQL Tuning Sets

• Automatic Plan Evolution of SQL Plan Management

• SQL Monitoring

• Reorganize objects

In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses for the Tuning Pack, with one exception: SQL Tuning Sets can be used if you have licensed either the Tuning Pack or Oracle Real Application Testing. A new initialization parameter, CONTROL_MANAGEMENT_PACK_ACCESS, is introduced to control access to the Diagnostic Pack and Tuning Pack in the database server. This parameter can be set to one of three values:

• DIAGNOSTIC+TUNING: Diagnostic Pack and Tuning Pack functionally is enabled in the database server.

• DIAGNOSTIC: Only Diagnostic Pack functionality is enabled in the server.

• NONE: Diagnostic Pack and Tuning pack functionally is disabled in the database server.

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 provides efficient, reliable, and secure data management for applications running locally on mobile and small-footprint devices (handhelds, laptops, communicators, and so forth). Oracle Database Lite supports scalable synchronization of data between devices and any Oracle Database while offering complete management of users, devices, and applications. Oracle Database Lite requires a minimum of one Named User Plus license or the total number of actual users, whichever is greater.

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.

For more information on Oracle Secure Backup Licensing, see

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19090_01/doc/backup.102/b25528/toc.htm