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Does Embedded version of Database exist in Oracle 10g(like Solid
Embedded Database)?
If yes, I would like to know the impacts on the users' code, if we move
from Oracle 10g normal RDBMS to the Oracle 10g embedded database. What
are the adaptations necessary?

I think that you're referring to licensing issues, meaning an
application specific limited use or application specific full use
license.
Check with your Oracle salesperson.
I'd direct you to the licensing guide, but store.oracle.com is
apparently offline for maintenance.

-bdbafh

bdbafh@gmail.com wrote:
> I think that you're referring to licensing issues, meaning an
> application specific limited use or application specific full use
> license.

No, I do not refer to the licensing issues. Probably, you are not aware
of what exactly 'embedded database' means. Please check
http://www.daffodildb.com/embeddeddatabase.html
In general, Embedded Databases do not run as separate processes, but
are directly linked into the application requiring access to the stored
data.

I would like to know whether Oracle also releases any such embedded
database.

qazmlp1209@rediffmail.com wrote:
> bdbafh@gmail.com wrote:
> > I think that you're referring to licensing issues, meaning an
> > application specific limited use or application specific full use
> > license.
>
> No, I do not refer to the licensing issues. Probably, you are not aware
> of what exactly 'embedded database' means. Please check
> http://www.daffodildb.com/embeddeddatabase.html
> In general, Embedded Databases do not run as separate processes, but
> are directly linked into the application requiring access to the stored
> data.
>
> I would like to know whether Oracle also releases any such embedded
> database.

Well you apparently didn't read very far into the url that you cited.

The Embedded Database fray includes enterprise players like Microsoft
Corp., who started shipping their SQL Server 2000 with a small
footprint of 1MB and Oracle Corp. with their Oracle Database 10g
targeted at the embedded market.

"Directly linked into the application" ... now that's a bizarre and
meaningless sentence.

My sentence "Hidden and requiring little if any administrator
attention" might be a better concept.

Yes Oracle does do the embedded database thing. As someone else
already pointed out, it IS mostly a licensing thing. EMC for instance
embeds an oracle database into their control center. Lots of example's
if you dig very far.

Does that help with what you are considering?

On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:28:27 -0700, qazmlp1209 interested us by writing:

> Does Embedded version of Database exist in Oracle 10g(like Solid
> Embedded Database)?
> If yes, I would like to know the impacts on the users' code, if we move
> from Oracle 10g normal RDBMS to the Oracle 10g embedded database. What
> are the adaptations necessary?

As others have indicated, you need to cleanly define the term 'embedded'.

One variant is an exposed engine that you can compile into your
application. That is something the traditional Oracle RDBMS no longer
makes available. (Years ago you had a choice of compiling in the kernel
or using the 'two task' communications facility, and there were stringent
warnings and gotchas around the single task variant.)

This variant can almost be accomplished using Oracle Database 10g Lite,
and I project it could again become available with the newly announced
purchase of INNO db engine.

If this is your target right now, I've heard some good comments about
db.* (http://www.ittia.com/dbstar/dbstar.html). However, note that many
embedded solutions totally ignore administration and a DBA, and IMO
eventually run into related troubles as few developer will 'go that far'
in the app.

The other major variant is to include the Oracle RDBMS in 'your
application package', and that is strictly a license negotiation with
Oracle.


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