Different editions and usage of oracle database

[Norse]

Hi,
I've heard about a free Oracle database version (that could be a "lite"version or something else).Is that true ?Does anyone know more about it ? Thanks in advance. Hello everyone ,Could you all introduce me about the different editions of oracle database and what is reason of issuing in different editions.

[Praetor]

The oracle is very large corporation in the worldwide and produces a lot of software products .The powerful and much secure database management system is provided by this corporation.

In the case of database, It produces the oracle database management system in 3 different editions and their usage are different from each other,they are described below :

• Express edition

• Enterprise edition

• Standard edition

[Katty]

The oracle database express edition is entry-level.it free to develop,deploy and administer.

The developer who are working with PHP, Java, .NET, XML they can also integrate it as a back end.DBA can also use it for training and deployment for a beginner.Independent Software Vendors and hardware vendors can distribute this database software with free of charge.

[kelfro]

This edition incorporates all the features of standard edition.It provides much more feature than other database availability, performance, scalability and security system.
It provides some more features that is described below:
Standard features:
1. Oracle Data Guard availability
2. Online index building and coalescing
3. Media recovery supported at block level
4. Backup and recovery strategy using incremental way
5. Time-Based tablespace recovery
6. Advance security options
7. Updated and enhanced Management pack
8. Different and easily manageable Diagnostics pack
9. Advance Tuning pack techniques

[Zecho]

The standard edition is an affordable and multifunction database management system. You can implement the real application cluster on it and it provides much better database availability and security with the server capabilities.

It can run on the different platform like Windows,Linux and Unix with simply handled tools for operating environment,Improved quality of services with enterprise level performance.It provides some development tools Oracle Application Express and Oracle SQL Developer and oracle data access components for windows.