Oracle Database 18c was released in February 2018.
Starting in 2018, Oracle has introduced a new version numbering schema that coincides with the year of the database software release. Oracle Database Version Numbering and Release Cycle In this article, we’ll demystify the version numbering changes, explore the Autonomous database solutions and differentiate between the two. With all the changes that have happened, it makes sense to step back and look at the offerings to determine what may be suitable for your Oracle database deployment. In addition, they have begun offering a new set of Autonomous Database services.
Oracle may track your “Processor” licenses from any of your AWR reports that you upload to meta-link.įeel free to give additional information in the comments, that I can validate and include in blog posts or update this as well.Oracle has adopted a new version numbering scheme.
You must be now thinking what will be the validity of this license ?, right? That’s another tricky one from Oracle, they have licenses without any term validities and also with 5 or 4 or 3 or 2 or 1 years of term validity. It’s 158730 $, that’s very huge isn’t it? Total cost is now calculated as = Number of processors*(EE Oracle database cost + EE options cost) + Support license cost = P*(DB+OP) + SP = 2*(47500+24000) $ + 15730 $ = 158730 $
Hope the numbers that are projected are scattered to get a clear picture of total costs incurred in the database. These prices are additional on top of enterprise license that is purchased. It will be interesting to know how much would few of EE options like RAC, Partitioning etc… would cost. Software update and support price: 10,450 $ Oracle calculates the number of processors on the server as “(number of cores) * (multi-core factor)”.Įach make of processor has their respective multi-core factor. Today, every server is running on multi-core processors. But Oracle sells a minimum of 25 users for Enterprise Edition per CPU.Ĭons: Even though your application have only 10 users, you will need to pay for 25.įrom the name, though we understand it per processor with respect to Oracle this is different to multi-core processors. This sort of licensing is very much suitable for a fixed intranet application where users are fixed and no major scalability. Licensed based on a number of users accessing the database whether programmatically or end user. Oracle has two types of database licenses and one for software update and meta-link that you can choose from. These license details are gathered from Oracle as on 2 and might change any time. Let us check the licensing terms and their prices for the most widely used features in database enterprise edition. To the professionals who do not know, there are two models from Oracle in purchasing database licenses for commercial purposes. When I have asked few of my colleagues about the commercial license, they just say that Oracle database licensing is based on a number of cores in your processor. Most of us might know that Oracle database is free for learning, testing and for any non-profit applications or firms. We must have been involved in only technical activities and issues on Oracle database every day, but most of the DBA’s must have a limited or no knowledge on how Oracle charges customers with their license models.