About Oracle9i

The Oracle server extends the data modeling capabilities to support an object relational database model that
brings object-oriented programming, complex data types, complex business objects, and full compatibility
with the relational world.
It includes several features for improved performance and functionality of online transaction processing
(OLTP) applications, such as better sharing of run-time data structures, larger buffer caches, and deferrable
constraints. Data warehouse applications will benefit from enhancements such as parallel execution of in sert,
update, and delete operations; partitioning; and parallel-aware query optimization. Operating within the
Network Computing Architecture (NCA) framework, Oracle9i supports client-server and Web-based
applications that are distributed and multitiered.
Oracle9i can scale tens of thousands of concurrent users, support up to 512 petabytes of data (a pedabyte is
1,000 terabytes), and can handle any type of data, including text, spatial, image, sound, video, and time series
as well as traditional structured data