OpenWorld nears, some info on Oracle 11g R2 database emerges

Oracle unusually secretive about its 'major database innovation'

The Web pages on ASM were deleted sometime after September 4. Oracle did not contact Burleson Consulting to remove them, according to Robin Rademacher, operations manager at Burleson Consulting, nor did the firm remove them because they were inaccurate.

"We knew they weren't supposed to be published yet, that's why we took them down," she said via phone today. "We built them as placeholders knowing that R2 would be coming at OpenWorld."

Database acceleration

Oracle officials are also scheduled to discuss a "new database accelerator" during three OpenWorld sessions September 25, as well as in a separately titled technical overview session later that day.

The frequency "sort of implies that we're talking about an actual new product here rather than just a marketing exercise," wrote Mark Rittman of Rittman Mead Consulting, a UK Oracle data warehousing and BI (business intelligence) specialist, on his blog.

"Supporting ever-larger databases, with ever-increasing demands for getting 'answers' faster and faster requires a new way to approach the problem," a description of the technical overview session, boldly subtitled "query processing revolutionized," reads in part. "This session looks at the intersection of database, data warehouse, and storage solutions that will deliver on these requirements."

Rittman speculated that the accelerator has something to do with Oracle's Optimized Data Warehouse initiative and possibly also involves partitioning, OLAP, Automatic Storage Management (ASM) or "some new 11gR2 feature that [Oracle executives] Chuck Rozwat or Andy Mendelsohn will announce earlier in the week."

A person familiar with Oracle's plans confirmed Rittman's speculation that Oracle plans to announce important initiatives in data warehousing appliances, storage, and query acceleration.

The sessions are scheduled on the last day of OpenWorld, a day after Ellison's keynote address, entitled "Extreme. Performance."

Chris Kanaracus is a reporter for the IDG News Service. Lucas Mearian of Computerworld contributed to this story.

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