Oracle on Monday announced an in-memory option for Oracle Database 12c that will accelerate analytics, data warehousing, reporting and online transaction processing for Oracle in-memory applications. These applications "deliver extreme performance on Oracle Engineered Systems," the company said. "This is a story about Oracle being a bit late to the game in incorporating in-memory into its database," remarked Wayne Kernochan, president of Infostructure Associates. Oracle has had in-memory technology since it acquired TimesTen in 2005, but "what it hasn't had is in-memory integrated into Oracle Database," Kernochan noted. "Still, this is a good thing for their customers -- assuming that unlike Oracle's OLAP Option in the past, the price isn't too steep." With this development, "Oracle Database itself acts as an in-memory RDBMS, with both row and column internal formats," Carl Olofson, a research vice president at IDC, told TechNewsWorld. "What this really means is that Oracle Database users get the benefits of [an in-memory database] without changing their SQL," he continued. The announcement "is an opportunity for Oracle to sell platforms and not just software," opined Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research.
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