Tag: Oracle

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC Explores Breakthrough Tissue "Fingerprints" Concept for Cancer Diagnostics Using Oracle Cloud Technology Tissue “fingerprinting” enables deep-learning algorithm to predict biomarkers, prognosis and theragnosis, set to improve understanding of cancer biology and accelerate clinical workflows, new research finds. Los Angeles and Redwood Shores, CA—Jul 9, 2020 The Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC (“Ellison Institute”) and Oracle reveal a promising two-step technique to train a high-confidence predictive algorithm for enhanced cancer diagnostics. The study uses novel tissue “fingerprints”—discriminating microscopic hematoxylin and eosin ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Awarded Framework Agreement from Government of Canada New initiative expands cloud options for Oracle-based workloads including Oracle Database, Weblogic, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and Siebel Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 9, 2020 Oracle announced today the award of a Framework Agreement for the provision of secure cloud services to the Government of Canada. This agreement gives Oracle's Canadian federal government customers the ability to securely store, manage and process sensitive data and applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Focused on a “cloud-first” strategy, the Government of Canada uses cloud services as its preferred delivery option ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Announces Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer Industry’s first fully managed cloud region brings 100% of Oracle’s public cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Cloud applications, to customer datacenters Pricing starts at only $500K per month, a small fraction of what customers would have to pay for a one-off region from other cloud providers Customers include Nomura Research Institute (NRI) in Japan and Oman Information and Communications Technology Group Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Driven by strong customer demand, Oracle today announced Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, the industry’s first fully-managed cloud region that ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Autonomous Database Now Available in Customer Datacenters Addresses data sovereignty, security, and performance concerns that prevent some enterprise workloads from moving to the public cloudCrédit Agricole, Entel, and Samsung SDS welcome Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Building on the success of Oracle’s Exadata Cloud@Customer service over the last three years, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer. This new offering combines the latest Oracle Database with the fastest Oracle Database platform—Exadata—delivered as a cloud service in customer datacenters. It eliminates database management and ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release NRI Selects Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer First customer to adopt new Oracle Cloud offeringWill be used for mission-critical, high-volume business platform to accelerate digital transformation Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Oracle today announced that Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has selected Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to run its critical, high-volume business platform used in various industries, including financial, retail, and distribution. NRI will start by moving its SaaS applications for the financial industry, which are used by about 70 percent of the capital markets firms in Japan, from on-premises to an Oracle Dedicated Region ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Justin Swanhart; Oracle MySQL is in need of a columnar storage engine for analytics workloads.  A columnar engine (or column store) stores data vertically, that is, it stores all the data associated with a column together, instead of the traditional RDBMS storage method of storing entire rows together, either in a index organized manner, like InnoDB, or in a heap, like MyISAM.   Columnar storage has the benefit of reducing IO when only a subset of the row is accessed in a query, because only the data for the accessed rows must be read from disk ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Survey: Consumers Eager to Travel with Certain Conditions for Hotels Global Oracle and Skift study highlights what consumers expect from hotels including increased cleaning and more contactless technology Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 7, 2020 Download the report Following a long stretch of stay-at-home orders, consumers are eager to get out and travel according to a new research study from Oracle and Skift. Just over half (51%) of people surveyed in both North and Latin America plan to book trips in the next six months, while 38% of those in Asia-Pacific and Europe are planning ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster(PXC) comes with ProxySQL as part of the deal. And to be honest, the behavior of ProxySQL is pretty much the same as in a regular non-k8s deployment of it. So why bother to write a blog about it? Because what happens around ProxySQL in the context of the operator is actually interesting.ProxySQL is deployed on its own POD (that can be scaled as well as the PXC Pods can). Each ProxySQL Pod has its own ProxySQL Container and a sidecar container. If you are curious, ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Max Mether. With the release of MariaDB Community Server 10.5, we continue what we started with our first divergence from MySQL, adding important features while maintaining key points of compatibility.To reflect our differentiation from MySQL, MariaDB Community Server 10.5 includes more MariaDB-named executables. And reflecting the value we place on compatibility, we include symlinks for old binary names. We started renaming executables to mariadb in MariaDB Server 10.4, using symlinks from the legacy mysql names to the new mariadb executable names. Now in MariaDB Server 10.5 the symlinks reverse direction, with MariaDB executables such as mariadb, ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Binary Large OBject  storage (BLOB) is a topic that comes up in almost every conversation about Oracle to PostgreSQL migration. I will discuss it here with enough detail to make architectural choices coming from the Oracle perspective.A basic understanding of the dataype is available in the PostgreSQL documentation. A bit more detailed discussion is also in the documentation. I suggest you read these articles lightly, and come back here for further discussion. Ready? Ok, let’s continue. The previous articles touched on a discussion about why the binaries are placed in the database in the first place. In ... Read More