Database Architectures

WHITE PAPER: Big data presents modern enterprises with unique opportunities to enhance their business strategies, but most organizations don't have the tools needed to effectively utilize it. Read on to learn about the opportunities big data presents and find out how Oracle's Engineered Systems for data management can help you capitalize on big data.

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The biggest challenge in IT today is how to master big data. If utilized properly, you can gain deeper insight into your business as a whole to foster better decision making, offer higher quality services, reduce costs, and more. Read on to learn how overcome the challenges of big data with ease.

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 | Published: 24 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: The options businesses today have to store, access, analyze and consume information for decision making have never been greater – but what capabilities will innovation bring to next-generation business intelligence (BI) tools? In this report BI expert Wayne Eckerson explains how the front end and back end of BI tools will be affected.

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Oracle Database 11g can enable you to deliver information at a higher quality of service while efficiently using budgets and resources. Inside, find a variety of case studies that examine the benefits your peers have achieved by leveraging Oracle Database 11g.

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | Published: 01 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Big data creates big opportunities to improve processes, customer service, and brand awareness if your organisation can effectively leverage it – something most businesses today struggle with. Read on to learn the tools and architecture you need to successfully analyse big data to gain deeper, richer insight and stay ahead of your competition.

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | Published: 23 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: This TDWI Checklist Report makes a case for private database clouds, especially as a platform for consolidated BI and DW applications.

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 | Published: 18 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Take a few minutes to read this brief resource and discover why it might be time for a new DBMS in your organization. You'll learn three major changes that DBMS's have gone through, key reasons for changing out a DBMS, and the benefits your organization can yield from a switch.

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 | Published: 21 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: Optimizing SQL Server performance can be a daunting task, especially for an increasing number of reluctant DBAs faced with managing their organization’s SQL Server databases, despite little training. This white paper provides a high-level overview of core SQL Server performance concepts and an overview of essential SQL Server performance tools.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this paper and discover how to deploy MongoDB onto Red Hat Enterprise 6.2. In addition to a step-by-step process for deployment, you'll also learn how to take advantage of features of the underlying system, several deployment scenarios for high performance database read and writes, and gain an in-depth look at MongoDB.

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the advantages of column-based databases, and see if it's right for your organization. Some of the key findings include how column-based databases perform faster and require less maintenance, while also performing better with analytic applications.

Posted: 09 Aug 2012 | Published: 09 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes an integrated architecture that can help you maintain high application availability in the event of a database failure. Obtain an in-depth overview of this technology and tips for successful implementation here.

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 | Published: 05 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to save on IT resources while supporting new and existing business applications with Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)'s high availability and scalability.

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Review this informative analysis of Oracle Database 11g Advanced Compression. Find out how Oracle technology enabled one Fortune 500 company to save on storage costs, improve overall performance, reduce the size of disk consumption by 50% for structured data and 98% for unstructured data, and much more.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Review this cost comparison study of Oracle Database 11g R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and uncover which technology came out on top. Find out which solution offered a 49% higher time savings, 46% more in complexity savings, and whose time savings amounted to saving $58,800 per year per database administrator.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Review this case study and learn how Oracle Database 11g enabled British Telecommunications (BT) to alleviate its database infrastructure management challenges. Find out how leveraging Oracle helped BT reduce their server sprawl, deploy databases faster, and operate with 20% fewer DBAs.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 24 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Does a SQL Server database server virtualization initiative make sense for your growing business? Read this report to learn how virtualization impacted data center performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) in a test environment.

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the architecture, data model, resource provisioning, load balancing, and replication systems of Windows Azure Storage (WAS), a scalable cloud storage system that provides customers with seemingly limitless data storage, access from anywhere at any time, and the ability to only pay for what they use.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how modeling information architecture (IA) can help reduce the costs associated with data management. Read this now and learn about the benefits of implementing IA and how Sybase's option offers modeling support for database design and enterprise architecture.  

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to gain a detailed understanding of how Cisco and Oracle have collaborated to deliver integrated, enterprise-class NoSQL solutions that offer exceptional agility, availability, scalability and manageability. Learn how it provides the infrastructure for the quick deployment of scalable and effective big-data solutions.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This report compares the costs and compression, automation, workload management, and optimization capabilities of DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE) versus Oracle Database 11g. It also emphasizes the importance of performance management tooling as a means of lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This research report details the most recent versions and developments surrounding Sybase IQ and offers key findings for which prospective users should be aware. It also delves into the details of its latest release, version 15.4, including its architecture, query performance, indexes, in-database analytics and more.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges the x86 processor trend, demonstrating that modern mainframe technology represents a scale-up option to the current racks filled with blades. It looks at the way organizations can benefit in terms of improved agility, increased reliability and cost savings by consolidating Oracle databases onto IBM’s zEnterprise.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper helps you manage more data in a cost-effective way. With data volumes tripling every two years, Oracle advanced compression delivers compression rates of 2 to 4 times across all types of data and applications.  Read this to learn more about how it can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to discover powerful, self-service business intelligence (BI) that helps you locate, evaluate, and use your crucial business information while minimizing the operational cost.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges several assumptions about scale-out architectures and explains how consolidation and virtualisation can help you regain control over your infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011