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1 Oracle Database Editions

This chapter describes the four Oracle Database editions and the features available with those editions. It contains the following sections:

The Oracle Database Product Family

Oracle Database is available in five editions, each suitable for different development and deployment scenarios. Oracle also offers several database options, packs, and other products that enhance the capabilities of Oracle Database for specific purposes. This section describes the Oracle Database editions. The database options and associated products are described in Chapter 2, "Options and Packs".

Oracle Database Standard Edition One Oracle Database Standard Edition One delivers unprecedented ease of use, power, and performance for workgroup, department-level, and Web applications. From single-server environments for small business to highly distributed branch environments, Oracle Database Standard Edition One includes all the facilities necessary to build business-critical applications.

Oracle Database Standard Edition Oracle Database Standard Edition delivers the unprecedented ease of use, power, and performance of Standard Edition One, with support for larger machines and clustering of services with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Oracle RAC is not included in the Standard Edition of releases prior to Oracle Database 10g, nor is it an available option with those earlier releases.

Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Oracle Database Enterprise Edition provides the performance, availability, scalability, and security required for mission-critical applications such as high-volume online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, query-intensive data warehouses, and demanding Internet applications. Oracle Database Enterprise Edition contains all of the components of Oracle Database, and can be further enhanced with the purchase of the options and packs described in Chapter 2, "Options and Packs".

Oracle Database Express Edition  

Oracle Database Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level edition of Oracle Database that is quick to download, simple to install and manage, and is free to develop, deploy, and distribute. Oracle Database XE makes it easy to upgrade to the other editions of Oracle without costly and complex migrations. Oracle Database XE can be installed on any size machine with any number of CPUs, stores up to 4GB of user data, using up to 1GB of memory, and using only one CPU on the host machine. Support is provided by an online forum. The current version of Oracle Database XE is Oracle Database 10g Release 2.

Oracle Database Personal Edition Oracle Database Personal Edition supports single-user development and deployment environments that require full compatibility with Oracle Database Standard Edition One, Oracle Database Standard Edition, and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.

Personal Edition includes all of the components that are included with Enterprise Edition, as well as all of the options that are available with Enterprise Edition, with the exception of the Oracle Real Application Clusters option, which cannot be used with Personal Edition. Personal Edition is available on Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit versions). The Management Packs are not included in Personal Edition.

Feature Availability by Edition

Table 1-1 lists feature availability for Oracle Database Standard Edition One (SE1), Standard Edition (SE), and Enterprise Edition (EE). The Y value in a column means that the feature is available in the specified release; N means that it is unavailable. This table can help you understand the difference between the editions and determine whether you require Enterprise Edition (or Personal Edition for a single-user environment).

Note that Oracle Database XE is a separate product from the rest of the Oracle Database product family. The features available with Oracle Database XE are documented in Oracle Database Express Edition Licensing Information, which is installed along with the product itself. The current version of Oracle Database XE is Oracle Database 10g Release 2.

Table 1-1 Feature Availability for Oracle Database Editions

Feature/Option SE1 SE EE Notes

High Availability

       

Oracle Fail Safe

Y

Y

Y

Windows only

Oracle RAC One Node

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Data Guard—Redo Apply

N

N

Y

 

Oracle Data Guard—SQL Apply

N

N

Y

 

Oracle Data Guard—Snapshot Standby

N

N

Y

 

Oracle Active Data Guard

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Rolling Upgrades—Patch Set, Database, and Operating System

N

N

Y

 

Online index rebuild

N

N

Y

 

Online index-organized table organization

N

N

Y

ALTER TABLE ... MOVE ONLINE operations

Online table redefinition

N

N

Y

Using the DBMS_REDEFINITION package

Duplexed backup sets

N

N

Y

 

Incremental backup and recovery

Y

Y

Y

SE1/SE: no optimized incremental backup

Unused block compression in backups

N

N

Y

 

Block-level media recovery

N

N

Y

 

Lost Write Protection

N

N

Y

 

Automatic Block Repair

N

N

Y

Requires Active Data Guard option

Parallel backup and recovery

N

N

Y

 

Tablespace point-in-time recovery

N

N

Y

 

Trial recovery

N

N

Y

 

Fast-start fault recovery

N

N

Y

 

Flashback Table

N

N

Y

 

Flashback Database

N

N

Y

 

Flashback Transaction

N

N

Y

 

Flashback Transaction Query

N

N

Y

 

Oracle Total Recall

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Scalability

       

Oracle Real Application Clusters

N

Y

Y

Extra cost with EE, included with SE

Automatic Workload Management

N

Y

Y

Requires Oracle Real Application Clusters

Performance

       

Query Results Cache

N

N

Y

 

PL/SQL Function Result Cache

N

N

Y

 

Client Side Query Cache

N

N

Y

 

In-Memory Database Cache

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Support for Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software

N

N

Y

 

Security

       

Advanced Security Option

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Label Security

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Virtual Private Database

N

N

Y

 

Fine-grained auditing

N

N

Y

 

Oracle Database Vault

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Secure External Password Store

N

N

Y

 

Development Platform

       

SQLJ

Y

Y

Y

Requires Oracle Programmer

Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET

Y

Y

Y

Windows only

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator support

Y

Y

Y

Windows only

Active Directory integration

Y

Y

Y

Windows only

Native .NET Data Provider—ODP.NET

Y

Y

Y

Windows only

.NET Stored Procedures

Y

Y

Y

Windows only

Manageability

       

Oracle Change Management Pack

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Configuration Management Pack

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Diagnostic Pack

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Tuning Pack

N

N

Y

Extra cost option, also requires the Diagnostic Pack

Oracle Provisioning and Patch Automation Pack

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Real Application Testing

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Database Resource Manager

N

N

Y

 

Instance Caging

N

N

Y

 

SQL Plan Management

N

N

Y

 

VLDB, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence

       

Oracle Partitioning

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle OLAP

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Data Mining

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Data Quality and Profiling

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Data Watch and Repair Connector

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Oracle Advanced Compression

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Basic Table Compression

N

N

Y

 

Bitmapped index and bitmapped join index

N

N

Y

 

Parallel query/DML

N

N

Y

 

Parallel statistics gathering

N

N

Y

 

Parallel index build/scans

N

N

Y

 

Parallel Data Pump Export/Import

N

N

Y

 

In-memory Parallel Execution

N

N

Y

 

Parallel Statement Queuing

N

N

Y

 

Transportable tablespaces, including cross-platform

N

N

Y

Import of transportable tablespaces supported into SE, SE1, and EE

Summary management—Materialized View Query Rewrite

N

N

Y

 

Asynchronous Change Data Capture

N

N

Y

 

Integration

       

Oracle Streams

Y

Y

Y

SE1/SE: no capture from redo

Messaging Gateway

N

N

Y

 

Basic Replication

Y

Y

Y

SE1/SE: read-only, updateable materialized view

Advanced Replication

N

N

Y

Multi-master replication

Database Gateways

Y

Y

Y

Separate product license

Networking

       

Oracle Connection Manager

N

N

Y

 

Infiniband Support

N

N

Y

 

Content Management

       

Oracle Spatial

N

N

Y

Extra cost option

Semantic Technologies (RDF/OWL)

N

N

Y

Requires Oracle Spatial and the Oracle Partitioning option


Features Specific to the Windows Platform

The following features related to application development are available only on Windows platforms:

Special-Use Licensing

Oracle Database Express Edition

Oracle Database Express Edition may be used for free, for the purposes of developing, prototyping and running applications. It can also be used for free to provide demonstrations and training. It may also be distributed for free with any applications. However, any use of the Oracle Database Express Edition is subject to the following limitations:

  1. Express Edition is limited to a single instance on any server.

  2. Express Edition may be installed on a multiple CPU server, but may only be executed on one processor in any server.

  3. Express Edition may be used only to support up to 4GB of user data (not including Express Edition system data).

  4. Express Edition may use up to 1 GB RAM of available memory.

The Oracle technical support organization will not provide technical support, phone support, or updates for Oracle Database Express Edition.

Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)

When used with Oracle Real Application Clusters in a clustered server environment, Oracle Database Standard Edition requires the use of Oracle Clusterware. Third-party clusterware management solutions are not supported.

The license restrictions for Standard Edition must be adhered to. The maximum number of CPUs defined is for the entire cluster; it is not a per node maximum.

Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) must be used to manage all database-related files. Third-party volume managers and file systems are not supported for this purpose. Oracle ASM is required for the storage of:

Local storage must be used for:

No Oracle-maintained copies of any of the above files can exist in any other locations, with the following exception: Customers who want to manually script maintenance of a standby database can create a second copy of their archive logs outside of Oracle ASM on a local file system only, designated by the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_n parameter.

RMAN backups of files can reside on either a local or network mounted file system.

No other cluster software can be installed on the system, including, OCFS, OCFS2, third-party clusterware, third-party cluster volume managers, and third-party cluster file systems.

Grid Infrastructure

The Grid Infrastructure is the foundation of the Oracle Grid. It includes Oracle Clusterware, Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), ASM Cluster File System (ACFS), and ASM Dynamic Volumes.

The Grid Infrastructure can be installed and used on any server where any of the following conditions are met:

  1. The server OS is supported by a valid Oracle Unbreakable Linux support contract.

  2. At least one machine involved in the cluster is licensed using the appropriate metric for either Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Oracle Database Standard Edition.

  3. Oracle Clusterware is used to protect a software product from failures. Oracle Clusterware can be used to protect a software product in cases that do not meet conditions 1 or 2 above if either of the following conditions are met:

    • The software being protected is from Oracle

    • The software being protected uses an Oracle database

A cluster is defined to include all the machines that share the same Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and Voting Disk.

Oracle Grid Infrastructure includes the following features:

Oracle Database Vault and Oracle9i Database Release 2 (9.2.0.8)

A separate Oracle Database 11g can be installed and used to administer Oracle Database Vault when installed with Oracle9i Database Release 2 (9.2.0.8), without additional license requirements. All 9.2.0.8 databases managed by Database Control in this manner must be correctly licensed with the Oracle Database Vault option. The installation of Oracle Database 11g deployed in this manner may not be used or deployed for other uses.

Oracle Connection Manager

Oracle Connection Manager can be installed and used on a machine different from the machine where the Oracle Database is installed and used. It is not necessary to obtain a separate license for the machine running Oracle Connection Manager.

Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC

Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC can be installed and used on a machine different from the machine where the Oracle Database is installed and used. It is not necessary to obtain a separate license for the machine running Oracle Gateway for ODBC.

Support of Real Application Testing in Earlier Releases

The full functionality of Oracle Real Application Testing is available only on Oracle Database 11g Release 1 or higher. Partial functionality of Oracle Real Application Testing is available to customers wishing to upgrade from Oracle9i Database Release 2 or Oracle Database 10g.

The functionality available on Oracle9i Database Release 2 is as follows:

The functionality available on Oracle Database 10g Release 2 is as follows:

Oracle Scheduler

Oracle Scheduler is a database feature that provides job scheduling functionality. Execution of jobs on machines where the Oracle database is installed is included with the Oracle Database license. For enterprise scheduling, the execution of jobs on remote machines where no Oracle database is installed is licensed as part of System Monitoring Plug-in for Hosts.

Oracle Secure Backup Express

Oracle Secure Backup Express is bundled with the Oracle Database. Oracle's technical support organization will provide technical support, phone support, or updates to you for Oracle Secure Backup Express when it is used to back up another Oracle Product that has a valid Customer Support Identifier (CSI). For example, if Oracle Secure Backup Express is used to back up an Oracle database that has a valid Customer Support Identifier, then Oracle Support provides technical support for the backup of this database.

Updates and technical support are only provided to customers who maintain technical support services for their Oracle licenses in accordance with Oracle's Technical Support Policies. Oracle Secure Backup is a separately licensed product and is supported in accordance with Oracle's Technical Support Policies.

Legato Storage Manager and Legato Single Server Version. Oracle Secure Backup Express is the replacement product for Legato Storage Manager (LSM) and Legato Single Server Version (LSSV). If you are currently using LSM or LSSV, then you can use Oracle Secure Backup Migration Guide to learn how to migrate these products to Oracle Secure Backup Express.

Oracle Secure Backup Express can back up an Oracle database as well as Oracle home files and other file system data requiring tape protection.

For more information, refer to Oracle Secure Backup Licensing Information.

Oracle Wallet

Oracle Wallet is a password-protected container used to store authentication and signing credentials, including passwords, private keys, certificates, trusted certificates, and TDE master keys. Oracle Wallet Manager is an application that wallet owners can use to manage and edit the security credentials in their Oracle wallets. Oracle Wallets can be deployed on clients, middle tiers, and database servers free of charge. However, the following features that use an Oracle Wallet in turn require licensing of the Oracle Advanced Security Option: PKI credentials and transparent data encryption master keys. Oracle Advanced Security option is not required when configuring wallets to secure communication between the Oracle Database and Oracle Internet Directory.

Infrastructure Repository Databases

A separate Oracle Database can be installed and used as a Recovery Manager (RMAN) repository without additional license requirements, provided that all the Oracle databases managed in this repository are correctly licensed. This repository database may also be used for the Oracle Enterprise Grid Control repository. It may not be used or deployed for other uses.

A separate Oracle Database can be installed and used as a Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control (OEM Grid Control) repository without additional license requirements, provided that all the targets (databases, applications, and so forth) managed in this repository are correctly licensed. This database may also be used for the RMAN repository. It may not be used or deployed for other uses.

Oracle In-Memory Database Cache Option

For the purposes of licensing Oracle In-Memory Database Cache, only the processors on which the TimesTen In-Memory Database component of the In-Memory Database Cache software is installed and/or running are counted for the purpose of determining the number of licenses required.

Oracle Advanced Security and Enterprise User Security

If you wish to use Enterprise User Security in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, you no longer need to license the Oracle Advanced Security Option for password-based authentication. However, you must license Oracle Internet Directory (OID). If you wish to use stronger authentication alternatives (such as Kerberos or PKI) for Enterprise User Security, you must license Oracle Advanced Security and the Oracle Internet Directory (OID). Any Oracle Advanced Security licenses purchased on or before January 31, 2004, have restricted use of the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) to support enterprise user security. Please contact your Oracle sales representative for additional information.

Restricted-Use Licensing

The following restricted-use licenses are included with Oracle Database 11g in the editions indicated:

Changes in Product Licensing

Oracle Warehouse Builder Enterprise ETL Option

The following features, previously licensed with the Oracle Warehouse Builder ETL Option, are no longer licensed with the Oracle Database. Instead, they are licensed via the Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition: