The new Oracle Database 21c is available today on Oracle’s cloud, with on-premises versions for Linux and Windows and Oracle’s Exadata database appliance set to arrive in the first half of the ...

Oracle Database 21c, the new release of the longtime industry leading RDBMS, is currently available in the Oracle Cloud, where it can be deployed as a Virtual Machine DB System (for clusters and ...

However, Oracle Database 21c for on-premise platforms including Exadata, Linux and Windows will be made available later in the year.

Oracle (ORCL) announced availability of Oracle Database 21c on its cloud platform as well as Oracle Apex (Application Express) Application Development as a managed cloud service.

"Our goal with 21c is to support of any data type, workload, and data model within the same database engine," Oracle's Jenny Tsai-Smith said.

The Oracle Database 21c release also comes a little more than a month after the company debuted a new cloud service, based on its open-source MySQL database, running on OCI.

Oracle Database 21c also introduces new in-memory vector join algorithms to speed up complex queries. Sharding Automation: Native Database Sharding delivers hyperscale performance and availability ...

With Database 21c, Oracle adds another form of query processing for data persisted in-memory: vector processing for queries that involve repeated actions such as hash joins.

Oracle Corporation ORCL recently announced availability of the newest version of its converged database — Oracle Database 21c — on its cloud platform.