Unveiled this week, Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 3 is an embeddable database geared toward mobile workers who need to exchange data with enterprise databases and run mobile applications even when they're disconnected from their organizations' networks. For example, Oracle executives say a company in Japan has installed the technology inside vending machines so that mobile workers can use handhelds to learn how much product is needed or whether the machines are in need of maintenance.
Database Lite 10g Release 3, which is priced at $20,000 per processor, is made up of Oracle's Mobile Server and a mobile relational database. It features new automatic synchronization capabilities that allow it to sync up with Oracle Databases without user intervention. That synchronization is two-way, says Oracle, meaning that it can be initiated by either the corporate database or the mobile device being used. The new release also enables application, device and user provisioning and includes centralized management tools, according to Oracle.
"[Database Lite is] a mobile self-contained database, but it also connects to back-end enterprise database servers," said Carl W. Olofson, research vice president of application development and deployment with Framingham, Mass.-based analyst firm IDC. "It's for mobile workers who want to carry part of their enterprise database
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with them on the road when they need to access it without the benefit of network communications."
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Database Lite 10g Release 3 is part of Oracle's portfolio of embeddable databases, which includes the open source Berkeley DB, a product Oracle acquired when it Oracle acquired with the purchase of TimesTen Inc. in 2005.
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