Why Oracle?

Oracle Database 11g helps customers lower IT costs and deliver a higher quality of service by enabling consolidation onto database clouds and engineered systems like Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database Appliance. It's proven to be fast, reliable, secure and easy to manage for all types of database workloads including enterprise applications, data warehouses and big data analysis.

• Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition provides industry-leading performance, scalability, security, and reliability on a choice of clustered or single-servers with a wide range of options to meet user needs.
• Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition is an affordable, full-featured database for servers with up to four sockets. It allows you to save money by buying only what you need today, and then scale out with Oracle Real Application Clusters as demand grows.
• Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One allows you to get started with small, two socket implementations at only $180 per user (5 user minimum).
• Oracle Database 10g Express Edition is an entry-level, small-footprint database that is free to develop, deploy, and distribute.

All editions are built using the same common code base, which means your database applications can easily scale from small, single-processor servers to clusters of multi-processor servers without changing a line of code. Compare features below.