Have you ever thought about this when choosing an Oracle database?

　　

Please allow me to use such a interrogative sentence as the title of the article. In the face of a database product that occupies more than half of the market share of the global relational database, does the CIO really ask himself such questions when choosing a database product? Oracle is not the cheapest product, in fact, since the launch of the Oracle database has never been reduced price, it is not the most radical technology products, many like memory computing, Columnstore and other functions have been launched in almost a year. So, there are still so many companies to choose Oracle as the "standard", the reason behind what is it?

The answer is actually very simple, buy a peace of mind. Oracle, which has long been the boss of the relational database, says that Oracle's database is not the only capital they "live in". Meet the needs of customers at the data platform layer, put more than 30 years of data management experience and best practices into the product, all of your potential problems, it can provide the corresponding solution. The CIO, when it comes to database sizing, is eyeing it, and even Oracle's database has become synonymous with high reliability, high performance, and high security.

For many Chinese companies, however, they do not know when buying Oracle databases that it is not just an Oracle enterprise database that is truly reliable, high-performance, and highly secure, but a series of Oracle database options around it )。 such as Oracle real application cluster (RAC), database partitioning, advanced compression, Active Data Guard (ADG), etc., is the key to make Oracle database stand out, some of them have even become the database domain killer application.

However, in the use of database options, users in China and developed countries there is still a certain gap. To this end, Wu Chengyang gives a set of Oracle database placement rate (AR) data, in which the Chinese users of the database option AR ratio of 47%, that is, China's users each in the database investment of $1, the option to invest only $0.47. Compared to Australia, the option AR ratio is 137%, which means that the cost to put on the option is even greater than the Oracle database itself. For this phenomenon, Wu Chengyang that the cost of options and deployment complexity are not the main reasons, the most fundamental is that many customers in China's knowledge of Oracle options is not high.

"For Oracle RAC, this is the option to do a DB cluster, 15 years ago, but there are still many users in China that are not used at all." Many Chinese companies now have CIOs based on applications that are bidding on projects, and they don't even know the Oracle option. But for some enterprises with high business continuity requirements, if they do not realize this, it is to make the business take a lot of risk. This is why Oracle emphasizes the importance of database options. "Wu Chengyang said.

In addition, Wu Chengyang believes that high availability, high performance, and high security are the three cornerstones of the successful operation of modern data centers and are three key aspects of Oracle database options. But Chinese companies tend to focus more on performance and usability, while ignoring security. Compared with other developed countries, Chinese companies rarely invest in security-related database options, which is one reason for the disparity. On the one hand, national laws and regulations are different, but more crucially, CIOs lack the emphasis on security, especially at the database level. An introduction to this Wu Chengyang, including options such as Oracle database Vault, Oracle DB Firewall, and Oracle Advanced Security, can help companies achieve the goals of proactive preparedness, alarm, incident interception, and post-mortem audits. Security of the database is foolproof. And as for how to protect data security presumably everyone knows to back up. Try a multi-backup, a SaaS dedicated to data backup to provide backup services.

Of course, a database option is a solution for a domain-specific application that is built on top of the database, and users need to purchase additional licenses, while others require deployment and installation by the customer. To address this issue, Wu Chengyang says Oracle and partner teams are ready to help customers with the deployment of complex options, such as Oracle RAC. And Oracle has always chosen the form of the option rather than packaging all the features sold, but also to meet the needs of enterprises of different sizes, to give customers more choice of space.

"Not all users have the same requirements for SLAs, and there can be significant cost differences between different requirements, such as some customers who do not use Oracle RAC to meet their needs." We believe Oracle can offer its customers the best total cost of ownership (TCO) in an option way. "Wu Chengyang said.

This article is from the "Big Meatball" blog, please make sure to keep this source http://12478147.blog.51cto.com/9663367/1604713

Have you ever thought about this when choosing an Oracle database?