Prilikom instalacije Oracle RDBMS software-a potrebno je odabrati verziju koju želimo instalirati i licencirati. Moguće verzije su: Enterprise Edition (EE), Standard Edition (SE) i Standard Edition One (SE1). Cijena licence u značajnoj mjeri varira od verzije do verzije. Postoji i freeware verzija a to je Express Edition (XE).
Evo i pregleda svojstava pojedinih verzija Oracle RDBMS baza podataka:
Feature Availability for Oracle Database Editions
| Feature/Option | SE1 | SE | EE | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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High Availability |
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Oracle Fail Safe |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Oracle Data Guard—Redo Apply |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Data Guard—SQL Apply |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Data Guard—Snapshot Standby |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Active Data Guard |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Rolling Upgrades—Patch Set, Database, and Operating System |
N |
N |
Y |
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Online index rebuild |
N |
N |
Y |
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Online index-organized table organization |
N |
N |
Y |
ALTER TABLE ... MOVE ONLINE operations |
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Online table redefinition |
N |
N |
Y |
Using the DBMS_REDEFINITION package |
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Duplexed backup sets |
N |
N |
Y |
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Block change tracking for fast incremental backup |
N |
N |
Y |
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Unused block compression in backups |
N |
N |
Y |
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Block-level media recovery |
N |
N |
Y |
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Lost Write Protection |
N |
N |
Y |
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Parallel backup and recovery |
N |
N |
Y |
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Tablespace point-in-time recovery |
N |
N |
Y |
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Trial recovery |
N |
N |
Y |
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Fast-start fault recovery |
N |
N |
Y |
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Flashback Table |
N |
N |
Y |
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Flashback Database |
N |
N |
Y |
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Flashback Transaction |
N |
N |
Y |
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Flashback Transaction Query |
N |
N |
Y |
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Flashback Data Archive (Total Recall) |
N |
N |
Y |
Requires Oracle Advanced Compression option |
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Scalability |
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Oracle Real Application Clusters |
N |
Y |
Y |
Extra cost with EE, included with SE |
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Automatic Workload Management |
N |
Y |
Y |
Requires Oracle Real Application Clusters |
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Performance |
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Client Side Query Cache |
N |
N |
Y |
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Query Results Cache |
N |
N |
Y |
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PL/SQL Function Result Cache |
N |
N |
Y |
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In-Memory Database Cache |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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SQL Plan Management |
N |
N |
Y |
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Support for Oracle Exadata Storage Server |
N |
N |
Y |
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Support for Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software |
N |
N |
Y |
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Security |
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Oracle Advanced Security |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Label Security |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Virtual Private Database |
N |
N |
Y |
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Fine-grained auditing |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Database Vault |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Development Platform |
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SQLJ |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Requires Oracle Programmer |
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Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator support |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Active Directory integration |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Native .NET Data Provider—ODP.NET |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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.NET Stored Procedures |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Manageability |
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Oracle Change Management Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Configuration Management Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Diagnostic Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Tuning Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option, also requires the Diagnostic Pack |
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Oracle Provisioning and Patch Automation Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Database Resource Manager |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Real Application Testing |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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VLDB, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence |
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Oracle Partitioning |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle OLAP |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Data Mining |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Advanced Compression |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Direct-Load Table Compression |
N |
N |
Y |
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Bitmapped index, bitmapped join index, and bitmap plan conversions |
N |
N |
Y |
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Parallel query/DML |
N |
N |
Y |
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Parallel statistics gathering |
N |
N |
Y |
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Parallel index build/scans |
N |
N |
Y |
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Parallel Data Pump Export/Import |
N |
N |
Y |
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Transportable tablespaces, including cross-platform |
N |
N |
Y |
Import of transportable tablespaces supported into SE, SE1, and EE |
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Summary management—Materialized View Query Rewrite |
N |
N |
Y |
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Asynchronous Change Data Capture |
N |
N |
Y |
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Integration |
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Basic Replication |
Y |
Y |
Y |
SE1/SE: read-only, updateable materialized view |
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Advanced Replication |
N |
N |
Y |
Multi-master replication |
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Oracle Streams |
Y |
Y |
Y |
SE1/SE: no capture from redo |
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Database Gateways |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Separate product license |
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Networking |
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Oracle Connection Manager |
N |
N |
Y |
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Infiniband Support |
N |
N |
Y |
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Content Management |
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Oracle Spatial and Graph |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Semantic Technologies (RDF/OWL) |
N |
N |
Y |
Requires the Oracle Spatial and Graph option and the Oracle Partitioning option |