Oracle Coherence provides the ideal infrastructure for building Data Grid services, as well as the client and server-based applications that utilize a Data Grid. At a basic level, Oracle Coherence can manage an immense amount of data across a large number of servers in a grid; it can provide close to zero latency access for that data; it supports parallel queries across that data; and it supports integration with database and EIS systems that act as the system of record for that data.