Database options

The Oracle Database offers a wide range of options[18] and features in the areas of
Availability, Scalability, Analytics, Performance, Security, Management, Developers and
Integration. These aim to enhance and complement existing database functionality to meet
customer-specific requirements.[19] All Database Options are only available for Enterprise
Edition and offered for an extra cost.[18][20] An exception to these two rules is Oracle Real
Application Clusters option, which comes included with Oracle Database 12c Standard
Edition 2 at no additional cost.[21]

Availability

 Oracle Active Data Guard extends Oracle Data Guard functionality with advanced
features, allowing read-only access to data in a physical standby database to offload
primary of such tasks as reporting, ad-hoc queries, data extraction and backup,
offloading redo transport and minimizing standby impact on commit response times
(using Far Sync feature), providing option for rolling upgrades for non-RAC
customers, managing clients workload across replicated database and improving
automated service failover (using Global Data Services), etc.

Scalability

 Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is the computer cluster version of Oracle
Database.
 Oracle RAC One Node is a one-node version of Oracle Real Application Clusters,
providing capabilities for database failover and high availability in the form of rolling
upgrades, online instance migration, application continuity and automated quality of
service management.

Analytics

 Oracle Advanced Analytics allows access to in-database data mining algorithms and
use of Oracle R Enterprise functionality, an integration with open-source R statistical
programming language and environment.
 Oracle Partitioning allows partitioning of tables and indices, where large objects are
stored in database as a collection of individual smaller pieces at the same time
appearing on application level as a uniform data object.
 Oracle On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is Oracle implementation of online
analytical processing.
 Oracle data models: pre-built data models with database analytics and business
intelligence capabilities for specific industries including
o Retail Data Model
o Communications Data Model
o Airlines Data Model
o Utilities Data Model