Oracle Real Application Clusters

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is an option to the award-winning Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Oracle RAC is a cluster database with a shared cache architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk approaches to provide highly scalable and available database solutions for all your business applications. Oracle RAC is a key component of Oracle's private cloud architecture. Oracle RAC support is included in the Oracle Database Standard Edition for higher levels of system uptime.

Oracle RAC One Node is a new option available with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Oracle RAC One Node is a single instance of an Oracle RAC enabled database running on one node in a cluster. This option adds to the flexibility that Oracle offers for database consolidation while reducing management overhead by providing a standard deployment for Oracle Databases in the enterprise.

Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2

Overview

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Datasheet (PDF) Nov 2010
  
• Oracle RAC One Node Datasheet (PDF) Nov 2010
  
• Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 Technical Overview (PDF) Nov 2010
  
• Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node 11g Release 2 Technical Overview (PDF) Nov 2010
  

Technical Articles

• Oracle Real Application Clusters in Oracle VM Environments (PDF) June 2010
• XA and Oracle controlled Distributed Transactions (PDF) Aug 2010
  
• Automatic Workload Management with Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 (PDF) Jan 2010
  
• Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 Overview of SCAN (PDF) Aug 2010
  
• Using standard NFS to support a third voting file for extended cluster configurations (PDF) Dec 2009
• Oracle Real Application Clusters on Extended Distance Clusters (PDF) Aug 2010
  
• Comparing Oracle Real Applicaton Clusters to Failover Clusters for Oracle Database (PDF) December 2006

Competitive and Business Information

• Oracle Grid: The Optimal Platform for Siebel Solutions (PDF) Dec 2009
  
• Technical Comparison of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (PDF) Dec 2009
• Technical Comparison of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g and IBM DB2 v9 for Linux, Unix, and Windows (PDF) Dec 2009

Related Technology

Oracle RAC Technologies Certification Matrix

Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 1

Overview

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Datasheet (PDF) Jul 2007
  
• Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Technical Overview (PDF) Jul 2007

Technical Articles

• Managing Workloads using Resource Manager and Database Services - A Siebel based Example Sept 2010
• Oracle Real Application Clusters in Oracle VM Environments (PDF) June 2010
• Workload Management with Oracle Real Application Clusters (FAN, FCF, Load Balancing) (PDF) Sept 2008
• S297816 Practical Performance Management for Oracle RAC(OOW2008) (PDF) Sept 2008
• Oracle Homes in an Oracle Real Application Clusters Environment (PDF) Jan 2008
• Using standard NFS to support a third voting disk on an Extended Distance cluster configuration on Linux,AIX, HPUX, or Solaris (PDF) Feb 2008
  
• Data Warehousing on Oracle RAC Best Practices (PDF) Oct 2008
• Comparing Oracle Real Applicaton Clusters to Failover Clusters for Oracle Database (PDF) December 2006

• Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Technical Comparison with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (PDF) May 2008 

Related Technology

Oracle RAC Technologies Certification Matrix

Previous Releases

• Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g
• Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters