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Oracle dominates the market for databases supporting enterprise business applications such as the SAP Business Suite. This section is intended to cover the business and technology factors driving customers to
choose Oracle
for their SAP deployments or to
migrate to Oracle
from other databases.
SAP R/3 was originally developed on Oracle, and the companies have a deep relationship at the technical level. Subsequent SAP products, such SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) have also been developed using the Oracle database. Oracle's assistance during incorporation of new database features, performance testing, bug fixing and customer problem escalations has been invaluable to the large number of SAP customers running on Oracle.
Years ago, Oracle implemented the industry's best concurrency model with nonescalating row-level locking and multi-version read consistency. In the
latest version, innovative features such as self-tuning database components, sophisticated partitioning schemes and data compression have maintained Oracle's reputation for performance, scalability and optimal use of hardware resources for enterprise applications. With Data Guard,
Real Application Clusters (RAC) and
Advanced Security (ASO),
Oracle has shown itself to be a leader in database availability and security as well – an important consideration for managing critical data in an SAP system.
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