All of Oracle’s Engineered Systems, including ODA, engineer their solutions for optimal Availability, Performance, Security and Scalability. When we compare Enterprise Edition with Standard Edition we see some significant features in Enterprise Edition that provide maximum Availability, Performance, Security and Scalability to provide ODA with an optimal Enterprise Database Solution.
AVILIBILITY:
In the area of Availability, Enterprise Edition has many unique
features that enhance availability not found in Standard Edition
including:
RAC One Node | Data Guard—Redo Apply | Data Guard—SQL Apply | Data Guard—Snapshot Standby | Active Data Guard |
Rolling Upgrades—Patch Set, Database, and Operating System | Online index rebuild | Online index-organized table organization | Online table redefinition | Duplexed backup sets |
Block change tracking for fast incremental backup | Unused block compression in backups | Block-level media recovery | Lost Write Protection | Automatic Block Repair |
Parallel backup and recovery | Tablespace point-in-time recovery | Trial recovery | Fast-start fault recovery | Flashback Table |
Flashback Database | Flashback Transaction | Flashback Transaction Query | Flashback Data Archive (Total Recall) |
PERFORMANCE:
When we look at Performance, Enterprise Edition has the Parallel Query
feature not found in Standard Edition. In benchmarking on ODA, with
real customer workloads, we have seen better performance when compared to Standard Edition. For many workloads this
means a requirement for fewer cores to execute the same workloads while
maintaining the same service levels.
When we couple this performance advantage with ‘on-demand’ software licensing, (an exclusive ODA feature), it can result in a significant reduction in the overall cost of Enterprise Edition licensed cores.
SECURITY:
Security is an imperative for all enterprise customers and especially
important to financial, public sector, healthcare and retail customers.
ODA using Enterprise Edition is able to offer security features not supported in the Standard Edition:
- Oracle Advanced Security
- Oracle Label Security
- Virtual Private Database
- Fine-grained auditing
- Oracle Database Vault
- Enterprise User Security
SCALABILITY:
To protect our customer’s investment in the ODA Engineered System, and
extend its useful life, Enterprise Edition offers features that extend
system Scalability that do not exist in Standard Edition including:
- Quality of Service Management Performance
- Client Side Query Cache
- Query Results Cache
- PL/SQL Function Result Cache
- In-Memory Database Cache
- Database Smart Flash Cache