This guest post was authored by Jeff Erickson, Oracle’s director of content strategy.
It’s pretty easy these days to grab a database and plug it into your development project—especially if you don’t think too much about how it will be used down the road, when your beautiful application gets hammered by millions of users and devices and mercilessly probed by hackers. The good news is that Andy Mendelsohn, executive vice president of database server technologies at Oracle, has been thinking — a lot — about all those problems you might face.
Mendelsohn, in a recent Q&A with Profit magazine, shares how his team work to carry database customers through their toughest problems, such as security and reliability, while also helping them meet new challenges such as big data and in-memory analytics and, of course, the transition to the cloud.
Here’s one specific example of an improvement of Oracle Database 12c from its first release to its second, in direct response to a customer need. Says Mendelsohn:
“The most frequently requested enhancement to the version 12.1 in-memory column store technology was the ability to isolate the analytics users from the transaction users. In Oracle Database 12.2, we addressed this with Oracle Active Data Guard: transaction users run on the primary database and in-memory column stores are created for the analytics users only on the standby database.”
The Oracle Database teams know this kind of fast and creative work is just what’s expected from Oracle, as they guide customers through today’s technology transitions and those that lie ahead. Says Mendelsohn, “Customers trust that Oracle is going to continue to innovate to remain the #1 database.”
Below, watch Oracle’s Andy Mendelsohn discuss how Oracle’s latest database innovation not only addresses what you need today, but also features the capabilities to dynamically adapt to what you need tomorrow.
Jeff Erickson is director of content strategy at Oracle. You can follow him at @erickson4.