Editing Oracle Database (section)

{{for|the database developed by DEC|Oracle Rdb}}

{{short description|Proprietary database management system}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Oracle Database
| logo = Oracle logo.svg
| screenshot =
| caption =
| developer = [[Oracle Corporation]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1979}}
| latest_release_version = {{Oracle Database version}}
| latest_release_date = {{Oracle Database version|releasedate}}
| genre = [[Multi-model database]]
| programming language = [[Assembly language]], [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.lextrait.com/Vincent/implementations.html |title= The Programming Languages Beacon, v16 |last= Lextrait |first= Vincent |date= March 2016 |access-date= 15 December 2016 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120530/http://www.lextrait.com/Vincent/implementations.html |archive-date= 30 May 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]<ref>{{Citation | publisher = Oracle | work = Technical network | url = http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/standard-license-152015.html | title = OTN Standard License}}</ref>
| website = {{URL |https://www.oracle.com/database/}}
}}

'''Oracle Database''' (commonly referred to as '''Oracle DBMS''', '''Oracle Autonomous Database''', or simply as '''Oracle''') is a proprietary [[multi-model database|multi-model]]<ref>{{cite web |publisher= Oracle |url= http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/spatial/pdf/12c/Multimodel_Database_with_Oracle_Database_12c_Release_2.pdf |title= Multimodel Database with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 |access-date= 1 March 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170414083210/http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/spatial/pdf/12c/Multimodel_Database_with_Oracle_Database_12c_Release_2.pdf |archive-date= 14 April 2017 |url-status= live }}</ref> [[database management system]] produced and marketed by [[Oracle Corporation]].

It is a database commonly used for running [[online transaction processing]] (OLTP), [[data warehouse|data warehousing]] (DW) and mixed (OLTP & DW) database workloads. Oracle Database is available by several service providers [[On-premises software|on-premises]], [[cloud computing|on-cloud]], or as a hybrid cloud installation.  It may be run on third party servers as well as on Oracle hardware ([[Oracle Exadata|Exadata]] on-premises, on [[Oracle Cloud]] or at Cloud at Customer).<ref>{{Citation |title=Exadata |url=http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/exacm-ds-3409774.pdf |work=Technical network |publisher=Oracle}}</ref>

Oracle Database uses [[SQL]] for database updating and retrieval.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Roeser |first1=Mary Beth |last2=Adams |first2=Drew |last3=Ashdown |first3=Lance |last4=Baby |first4=Thomas |last5=Baer |first5=Hermann |last6=Baskan |first6=Yasin |last7=Bayliss |first7=Nigel |last8=Chen |first8=Shuo |last9=Belden |first9=Eric |title=Oracle and Standard SQL |url=https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/21/sqlrf/Oracle-and-Standard-SQL.html |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Oracle Help Center |language=en-US}}</ref>