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What is the latest version of Oracle Database?
- First numeral: Oracle Database major release number. ...
- Second numeral: Oracle Database Release Update (Update) in Oracle Database 18c and later releases. ...
- Third numeral: Oracle Database release updates revision (Revision). ...
- Fourth numeral: Oracle Database increment version. ...
- Fifth numeral: This numeral is reserved for future use.
What is Oracle terminology?
Oracle Cloud Terminology. As you start using Oracle Cloud, it helps to understand the basic terminology we use to describe the Oracle Cloud features and services. A facility used to house computer systems and associated components.
What is Oracle CPU?
The Oracle cpu_count is determined when you start Oracle. The cpu_count affects the Oracle cost-based optimizer through many calculated parameters that use cpu_count as their basis and are considered every time that Oracle creates an execution plan for a SQL statement.
What is Oracle core factor?
Oracle Core Factor. Core factor is a weighting given by Oracle to reflect that certain models of CPU are slower than others. It is also used to encourage the purchase of their hardware. The core factor given to virtual cores in AWS or Azure is 0.5. Which means for a 4 core virtual server you need 2 cores of license.
Clarity for customers
The model other clouds use to measure their compute resources is virtual CPU or vCPU, and it’s truly virtual. An end user has no idea what resources underlie that abstraction, or how much a cloud provider might have oversubscribed their physical network bandwidth and compute cores for efficiency—theirs, not yours.
How OCPU is better for you
The Oracle CPU (OCPU) unit of measurement for x86 OCPUs is worth at least two vCPUs. That’s only counting two cores per physical CPU to account for two threads of execution: The main CPU core and its associated symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) unit.
What is Oracle Autonomous Database?
Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure uses specific algorithms to allocate and bill for usage of the OCPUs used by autonomous databases. Understanding these algorithms can help you determine how best to create and configure your autonomous databases to meet performance goals in the most cost-effective fashion.
Does Oracle use autonomous container database?
To ensure that no single autonomous database can auto-scale up to consume all OCPUs available in the pool for the overall deployment, Oracle Autonomous Database uses the autonomous container database as a limiting control.
What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
An OCPU is defined as the CPU capacity equivalent of one physical core of an Intel Xeon processor with hyper threading enabled, or one physical core of an Oracle SPARC processor.
What is vcpu in AWS?
AWS, Microsoft and Google use vCPU as compute performance unit. Each vCPU is defined as a hyperthread of an Intel Xeon core. A standard Intel processor core with hyperthreading enabled has 2 threads.
How many cores does a VM have?
VM.Standard1.1 shape - virtual machine powered by processor Intel Xeon 2.3 GHz E5-2699 v3. Processor contains 18 physical cores (18 OCPU) and in this specific shape, the customer is provisioned with 1 physical core (OCPU). The equivalent to 1 OCPU would be 2 threads.
How can we save on costs?
When sized right, moving to the cloud can result in cost savings. As seen with the customer, adjusting to OCPUs here and there can lead to cost savings. To optimize cost savings and have a better total cost of ownership (TCO) than your on-premises environment, keep the following concepts in mind:
Want to know more?
We know that every use case is different. The only way to know if Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is right for you is to try it. You can select either the Oracle Cloud Free Tier or a 30-day free trial in our commercial regions, which includes US$300 in credits to get you started with a range of services, including compute, storage, and networking.