Oracle 10g release has three key grid-infrastructure products:-
- Oracle Database 10g
- Oracle Application Server 10g
- Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control
Oracle 10g key features:-
- It is suitable from small business to enterprise business
- It provide scalability, reliable, robust, and in a secure architecture
- It has a single development model to ease the developers
- It allow the current users with common skill set to use this platform based on SQL, PL/SQL, Java and XML
- It provide a centralize management interface
- It contain the grid architecture to lower the cost of computing with high quality
Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Database 10g is a database used to store and manager the information using SQL. In Oracle Database 10g, it is not only manage the object relational data, it even can support the unstructured data like below and does not need to be in the database (i.e. stored in file system):-
- Multimedia format – mp3, mp4, video, graphics, and more
- Word or PowerPoint or Spreadsheet documents
- XML or HTML files
Oracle Application Server 10g
Oracle Application Service 10g is a platform for us to run the applications, even developed in J2EE. It is a application server to cover many services that you need to use as below:-
- Business intelligence features
- Java platform functionality
- Web site or web portal capability
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control is a UI Interface for us to manage and automate administration jobs for all the Oracle related hardware nodes or applications or databases in a grid environment. With below two key functions that simplified for IT administrators.
- Software provisioning – With Grid Control, it automate installation, configuration, deploying, and even clone for the new set of application servers or databases if needed.
- Application service level monitoring – With Grid Control, the administrators can monitor all as one view rather than previous method to check the servers or application or database one by one.
