Top-5 Innovations of Oracle’s Database In-Memory

Database architectures are fundamentally changing due to new technologies and new requirements driven by real-time enterprises.  Businesses must be data-driven, agile, and efficient, and react rapidly to changing data to make important business decisions.  They require analytics at the speed of thought, to deliver immediate, actionable insights from their data, with zero to minimal impact to their operational data and workflow.  Oracle delivers the technology needed to enable real-time intelligence with it’s Database In-Memory product.  Database In-Memory (DBIM) accelerates analytic queries by orders of magnitude by using an in-memory columnar data format and leveraging modern hardware technologies such as SIMD vector processing.  It’s novel dual-format architecture brings performance to both analytics and mixed workloads without any application changes.  Since 2014, when Larry Ellison first introduced DBIM to the world and proclaimed how it processes data at “ungodly speeds”, Oracle has advanced it’s In-Memory technology with ground-breaking innovations year after year.  This talk will present, in detail, the Top-5 transformational technologies developed in Database In-Memory since inception, which have solidified it as cutting edge by customers and analysts alike, and the go-to product for businesses needing real-time intelligence.