The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system (RDBMS) produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.

Benefits:

• It competes with IBM’s DB2 for the mid-range and top-end market on Unix and Linux platforms
• It is the preferred back-end technology of choice for a large percentage of the Fortune 500 companies
• It is robust and stable
• It contains powerful High Availability and Data Recovery tools
• With proper configuration and careful administration, it is able to handle a large user base and high concurrency
• It can easily handle petabytes of storage
• There is a large user group community and support for PL/SQL with millions of developers worldwide
• It supports online technologies such as .NET and embedded java
• It supports grid computing (distribution of CPU resources)
• It supports cloud computing
• It can be a Virtual Private Database