Oracle(R) Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 Now Available

REDWOOD SHORES, CA, Nov 09 (MARKET WIRE) --
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

News Facts

-- Oracle today announced the new release of Oracle(R)
Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 including significant new features for
high availability, scalability and performance, and demonstrating Oracle's
continuing commitment to open source, Java and the developer
community.
-- A member of the Oracle Berkeley DB product family, Oracle Berkeley DB
Java Edition is an open source, transactional storage engine for key-value
pairs written entirely in Java that can be deployed as an embedded or
"edge" database, enabling developers to build applications that require no
manual administration.
-- Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 includes new replication features
for high availability and scalability and significant performance
improvements for highly concurrent applications. Oracle Berkeley DB Java
Edition 4.0 with high availability is available under the existing Oracle
dual license for Berkeley DB Java Edition.
-- In addition, improved monitoring capabilities, including a plug-in for
the Java jconsole utility, make it easier to deploy and monitor
applications that utilize Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition.
-- Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 joins recently released Oracle Berkeley
DB
4.8 and Oracle Berkeley DB XML 2.5. All three products are designed
for developers, ISVs, OEMs and enterprises to integrate directly into their
software applications, devices and equipment to deliver high performance,
reliability and availability with virtually no human administration.

Enabling Decreased Downtime, More Scalability and Easy Integration
with Third-Party Monitoring Tools
Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition
provides an unparalleled pure Java data persistence library that helps
dramatically reduce the overhead of object persistence while keeping the
flexibility, speed and scalability of object to relational mapping (ORM)
solutions. Highlights of release 4.0 include:

-- High Availability/Replication: Supports automatic system fail
over and load balancing of read operations, allowing developers to
eliminate single points of failure and decrease downtime. The new
capabilities also deliver improved write performance and scalability across
multiple systems.

-- High Availability/Replication provides a single master, multiple
replica replication implementation including features such as dynamic group
membership, configurable transaction durability and consistency guarantees,
automatic fail-over and both synchronous and asynchronous replication.
-- The High Availability/Replication feature also includes in-depth
documentation, examples and Java helper classes to make it easy to use and
configure.

-- Performance Improvements: Enables performance improvements to the
existing concurrent execution and group commit functionality, especially
important for multi-threaded applications that are committing many
transactions concurrently or have high write-intensive operations within
specific data sets or "hot spots" in the database.

-- Ease of Use: New
monitoring features make it easier to deploy and monitor the Oracle
Berkeley DB Java Edition data store in production applications, while API
and exception handling improvements make it easier to develop
applications.

-- Improved monitoring capabilities allow users to better understand the
internal state and statistics of the Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition
database for performance tuning and trouble-shooting.
-- This release supports the industry-standard Java jconsole utility
out-of-the-box, which can be used to view and graph database statistics and
easily integrate Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition monitoring with third
party monitoring tools.
-- Additionally, several new features provide enhancements to the existing
APIs, and the exception handling system has been restructured to make
errors easier to catch, handle and recover from, without requiring changes
to existing applications.

Supporting Quotes

-- "Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 is a major new release with high
availability for the first time," said Rex Wang, vice president, Product
Marketing, Oracle. "The combination of high availability, high scalability
and high performance in a pure Java, embeddable package makes Oracle
Berkeley DB Java Edition highly differentiated from other
alternatives."
-- "Oracle continues to innovate and enhance the open source Berkeley DB
product line. Adding a replication capability in Oracle Berkeley DB Java
Edition 4.0 greatly enhances the product's value proposition, since this
kind of feature is used for applications requiring fault tolerance and
scalability beyond a single node," said Carl Olofson, Research Vice
President at IDC.
-- What customers are saying about Oracle Berkeley DB Java
Edition 4.0

Supporting Resources

-- Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition
-- Oracle
Berkeley DB Product Family
-- Oracle Berkeley DB
Blog
-- Charles Lamb's
Blog

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