What Is The Difference Between

[ussainbasha]

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORACLE LOWER VERSION AND HIGHER VERSION?
ALSO, TELL ME WHAT ARE ALL THE VERSIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN ORACLE?
IN ORACLE 9i what is mean by i?

[tprabhuit]

Hi,

Here is a quick version details.

Version 1 - Not released (Only internal release)
Version 2 - RDBMS
Version 3 - Portablity (So rewritten in C)
Version 4 - concurrency control (Read/Write independent)
Version 5 - Client/Server model
Version 6 - most scalable and highly available system
Version 7 - introduced the PL/SQL procedural capability and declarative referential integrity
Version 8 - data warehousing business, store large amounts of data
Version 8i- ability to run in a multitier architecture
Version 9i- introduced Oracle Real Application Clusters, multiple servers to access a single database, Oracle XML Database
Version 10g-introduced Automatic Storage Management for virtualizing and simplifying storage management, very high availability, very high scalability, very high performance, and very high security, it as easy to manage as possible—self-managing

Regards,
Prabhu.T

[Larry Cumber]

The "i" represents internet platform.

[tprabhuit]

Yes and G represents the Grid technology.

Regards,
Prabhu.T

[gouthami1970]

Hi,

As g in version 10 of oracle represents grid technology it will utilise all the free resources of servers for distributing globally.


Gouthami

Originally Posted by ussainbasha

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORACLE LOWER VERSION AND HIGHER VERSION?
ALSO, TELL ME WHAT ARE ALL THE VERSIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN ORACLE?
IN ORACLE 9i what is mean by i?