Editing Oracle Corporation (section)

====Databases====
* [[Oracle Database]]
** Release 10: In 2004, Oracle Corporation shipped release 10''g'' (''g'' standing for "grid") as the then latest version of [[Oracle Database]]. ([[Oracle Application Server]] 10''g'' using [[Java EE]] integrated with the server part of that version of the database, making it possible to deploy [[World Wide Web|web]]-technology applications. The application server was the first [[three-tier (computing)|middle-tier]] software designed for [[grid computing]]. The interrelationship between [[Grid computing|Oracle]] 10''g'' and [[Java (programming language)|Java]] allowed developers to set up [[stored procedure]]s written in the Java language, as well as, those written in the traditional Oracle database programming language, [[PL/SQL]].){{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}
** Release 11: Release 11g became available in 2007. Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 11g Release 2 in September 2009. This version was available in four commercial editions—Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, and Personal Edition—and in one free edition—the Express Edition. The licensing of these editions shows various restrictions and obligations that were called complex by licensing expert Freirich Florea.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 60 Licensing Pitfalls For Oracle Databases And Oracle Technology Products |url=http://omtco.eu/references/oracle/top-60-licensing-pitfalls-for-oracle-databases-and-oracle-technology-products/ |access-date=April 21, 2013 |publisher=OMT-CO Operations Management Technology Consulting GmbH}}</ref> The Enterprise Edition (DB EE), the most expensive of the Database Editions, has the fewest restrictions—but nevertheless has complex licensing. Oracle Corporation constrains the Standard Edition (DB SE) and Standard Edition One (SE1) with more licensing restrictions, in accordance with their lower price.
** Release 12: Release 12''c'' (''c'' standing for "cloud") became available on July 1, 2013.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Database 12c, the First Database Designed for the Cloud |date=July 1, 2013 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1967380 |access-date=July 1, 2013}}</ref>

Oracle Corporation has acquired and developed the following additional database technologies:
* [[Berkeley DB]], which offers [[embedded database]] processing
* [[Oracle Rdb]], a relational database system running on [[OpenVMS]] platforms. Oracle acquired Rdb in 1994 from [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]. Oracle has since made many enhancements to this product and development continues {{as of|2008| lc = on}}.
* [[TimesTen]], which features in-memory database operations
* [[Essbase|Oracle Essbase]], which continues the [[Hyperion Solutions|Hyperion]] Essbase tradition of [[multidimensional database|multi-dimensional database]] management
* [[MySQL]], a relational database management system licensed under the [[GNU General Public License]], initially developed by [[MySQL AB]]
* [[Oracle NoSQL Database]], a scalable, distributed key-value [[NoSQL]] database<ref>{{cite web |last=Taft |first=Darryl K |date=October 18, 2011 |title=Oracle to Boost Data Management With Endeca Buy |url=http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Oracle-to-Boost-Data-Management-With-Endeca-Buy-517167/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122150710/http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Oracle-to-Boost-Data-Management-With-Endeca-Buy-517167/ |archive-date=January 22, 2013 |access-date=November 3, 2011 |website=[[eWeek]] |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]] |quote=Oracle also announced the Oracle NoSQL Database, a distributed, highly scalable, key-value database. }}</ref>