Oracle doesn't want to own a linux distrib. What Oracle wants is a standard hardware interface for its database software. A bare metal install for the database.
They tried to do this some years back but it never took off. They would like to have a "Database Appliance". Cuts down on the security issues for them becuase they control everything.. Install and patching is easy for you because it's one product, the Database..
But it doesn't have to stop at the database. You can have an AS appliance... and so on.. The "full stack"
Beowulf is a shared nothing cluster. Great for some things not great for databases. Oracle RAC is a shared disk cluster. 2-XXX Number of Servers have access to the same datafiles and each others mem space.
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Oracle doesn't want to own a linux distrib. What Oracle wants is a standard hardware interface for its database software. A bare metal install for the database. They tried to do this some years back but it never took off. They would like to have a "Database Appliance". Cuts down on the security issues for them becuase they control everything.. Install and patching is easy for you because it's one product, the Database.. But it doesn't have to stop at the database. You can have an AS appliance... and so on.. The "full stack"
Beowulf is a shared nothing cluster. Great for some things not great for databases. Oracle RAC is a shared disk cluster. 2-XXX Number of Servers have access to the same datafiles and each others mem space.