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Oracle Database 11g is a comprehensive database platform for data warehousing and
business intelligence that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, deeply integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data-quality -- all in a single platform running on a reliable, low-cost grid infrastructure. Oracle Database 11g provides best-of-breed functionality for data warehouses and data marts, with proven scalability to 100's of terabytes and record-breaking performance. It also provides a uniquely integrated platform for analytics; by embedding OLAP, Data Mining, and statistical capabilities directly into the database, Oracle delivers all of the functionality of standalone analytic engines with the enterprise scalability, security, and reliability of an Oracle Database. Since data integration is a core requirement of any data warehouse, Oracle Database 11g includes Oracle Warehouse Builder, a leading ETL tool that utilizes Oracle's scalable data transformation and heterogeneous data-access capabilities.
Oracle's data warehouse solutions now extend to hardware components. Sun Exadata
Storage Servers, powered by Oracle's unique Exadata storage software running, enable
extreme high performance and unlimited linear scalability. Oracle has also teamed up
with Sun to deliver the Sun Oracle Database Machine, a complete warehouse configuration in a single cabinet. In addition, the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative offers customers a choice of reference configurations for optimized warehouse performance from multiple hardware vendors.
This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and
discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence
and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to
very large data volumes and analyze any data.
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