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Differences Between Enterprise, Standard Edition 2 on Oracle 12.2 (Doc ID 2243031.1)

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APPLIES TO:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.2.0.1 and later

Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

PURPOSE

To show the option differences between the different editions of Oracle 12.2 server,Table lists feature availability for
Oracle Database Standard Edition One (SE2), and Enterprise Edition (EE).

SOURCE:

Oracle® Database Licensing Information 12c Release 1 (12.2)

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Feature/Option SE2 EE Notes

Consolidation

1 252 Extra cost option; With Multitenant

Multitenant license up to 252 pluggable
databases can be created. The
multitenant architecture with one
pluggable database (single tenant)
is available in all editions

Snapshots and Cloning

N Y Requires advanced compression

Storage Snapshot Optimization option

High Availability

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Feature/Option SE2 EE Notes

Application Continuity N Y Requires the Active Data Guard

option or the Real Application
Clusters option

Oracle Sharding N Y No limit on the number of either

Primary shards or Standby shards
if every shard has an ADG, GG or
RAC license. Without those license
use is limited to 3 primary shards
with basic DG standbys

Oracle Fail Safe Y Y Windows only

Oracle RAC One Node Y Y Extra cost option

Oracle Data Guard—Redo Apply N Y

Requires the Active Data Guard

Oracle Data Guard— Far Sync Standby N Y option

Oracle Data Guard—SQL Apply N Y

Oracle Data Guard—Snapshot Standby N Y

Oracle Data Guard—Real-Time Cascading Standby N Y Requires the Active Data Guard
option

Oracle Active Data Guard N Y Extra cost option

Rolling Upgrades—Patch Set, Database, and Operating N Y

System

Requires the Active Data Guard

Rolling Upgrade using Active Data Guard N Y option

Online index rebuild N Y

Online index-organized table organization N Y ALTERTABLE...MOVEONLINEoperations

Online table redefinition N Y Using

theDBMS_REDEFINITIONpackage

Duplexed backup sets N Y

Block change tracking for fast incremental backup N Y

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Feature/Option SE2 EE Notes

Unused block compression in backups N Y

Block-level media recovery N Y

Lost Write Protection N Y

Automatic Block Repair N Y Requires Active Data Guard option

Parallel backup and recovery N Y

Tablespace point-in-time recovery N Y

Trial recovery N Y

Fast-start fault recovery N Y

Flashback Table N Y

Flashback Database N Y

Flashback Transaction N Y

Flashback Transaction Query N Y

Optimization for Flashback Data Archive N Y Basic Flashback Data Archive is in

all editions. Optimization for
Flashback Data Archive requires EE
and the Advanced Compression
option.

Online Datafile Move N Y

Transaction Guard N Y

Cross-platform Backup and Recovery N Y

Requires the Active Data Guard

Global Data Services N Y option

Recovering tables and table partitions from RMAN backups N Y

Scalability

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Feature/Option SE2 EE Notes

Oracle Real Application Clusters Y Y Extra cost with EE, included with
SE

Automatic Workload Management Y Y Requires Oracle Real Application

Clusters

Quality of Service Management Y Y Requires Oracle Real Application

Clusters

Oracle NoSQL Database Basic edition N Y

Performance

Client Side Query Cache N Y

Query Results Cache N Y

PL/SQL Function Result Cache N Y

In-Memory Database Cache N Y Extra cost option

Database Smart Flash Cache N Y Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux

only

Support for Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software N Y

Adaptive Execution Plans N Y

Concurrent Execution of UNION and UNION ALL Branches N Y

Requires the Database In-Memory

In-Memory Column Store N Y option

In-Memory column store on Active data guard standby N N

Fault Tolerant In-Memory column store N Y Requires Database Appliance, the
Database In-Memory option, RAC
option
In-Memory Aggregation N Y Requires Database in-Memory
option

Attribute Clustering N Y

Zone Maps N N

Security

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Feature/Option SE2 EE Notes

Column-Level Encryption N Y Requires the Advanced Security
option

Tablespace Encryption N Y Requires the Advanced Security

option

Advanced Security Option N Y Extra cost option

Oracle Label Security N Y Extra cost option

Oracle Database Vault N Y Extra cost option

Virtual Private Database N Y

Fine-grained auditing N Y

N Y Enterprise User Security is an EE

Enterprise User Security feature for directory-based
management of database users. It
does require a corresponding
Oracle Identity Management
Directory Services Plus to be
licensed. Usage of Enterprise User
Security with Oracle Datbase
strong authentication (PKI
Kerberos) no longer requires
Oracle Advanced Security to be
licensed.

Real Application Security N Y

Requires Oracle Advanced Security

Redaction N Y

Requires Data vault option

Privilege Analysis N Y

Transparent Sensitive Data Protection N Y

Virtual Private Database N Y

Development Platform

SQLJ Y Y Requires Oracle Programmer

Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET Y Y Windows only

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator support Y Y Windows only

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Feature/Option SE2 EE Notes

Active Directory integration Y Y Windows only

Native .NET Data Provider—ODP.NET Y Y Windows only

.NET Stored Procedures Y Y Windows only

Manageability

Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database N Y Extra cost option

Oracle Data Masking Pack N Y Extra cost option

Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle N Y Extra cost option
database

Oracle Diagnostic Pack N Y Extra cost option

Oracle Tuning Pack N Y Extra cost option, also requires the

Diagnostic Pack

Oracle Real Application Testing N Y Extra cost option

Database Resource Manager N Y

I/O Resource Management N N

Instance Caging Y Y

SQL Plan Management N Y

SQL Tuning Sets can also be

SQL Tuning sets N Y accessed by way of database
server APIs and command-line
interfaces.
Rapid Home Provisioning N Y When deployed across multiple
clusters, requires Lifecycle
Management Pack on targets

VLDB, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence

Oracle Partitioning N Y Extra cost option

Oracle OLAP N Y Extra cost option

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Feature/Option SE2 EE Notes

Oracle Advanced Analytics N Y Extra cost option

Oracle Advanced Compression N Y Extra cost option

Advanced Index Compression N Y Requires the Advanced

Compression option

Prefix Compression ( Key Compression) N Y

Hybrid Columnar Compression N Y Requires ZFS, Axiom or FS1

storage

Hybrid Columnar Compression Row-Level Locking N Y Requires ZFS or FS1 storage, and
the Advanced Compression option

Heat Map N Y Requires the Advanced

Compression option

Automatic Data optimization N Y Requires the Advanced

Compression option
Basic Table Compression N Y

Deferred Segment Creation N Y

Bitmapped index, bitmapped join index, and bitmap plan N Y

conversions

Parallel query/DML N Y

Parallel statistics gathering N Y

Parallel index build/scans N Y

Parallel Data Pump Export/Import N Y

In-memory Parallel Execution N Y

Parallel Statement Queuing N Y

Parallel capture and apply via XStream N Y

Transportable tablespaces, including cross-platform and Full N Y Import of transportable

Transportable export and import tablespaces supported into SE,
SE1, and EE

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Feature/Option SE2 EE Notes

Summary management—Materialized View Query Rewrite N Y

Integration

Basic Replication Y Y SE2 read-only, updateable

materialized view

Oracle Streams Y Y SE2: no capture from redo

Database Gateways Y Y Separate product license

Messaging Gateway N Y

Requires the Oracle Partitioning

Sharded Queues N Y option

Networking

Oracle Connection Manager N Y Available via a custom install of the

Oracle Database client, usually
installed on a separate machine

Infiniband Support N Y

Requires the Advanced

Network Compression N Y compression option

Network Encryption (SSL/TLS) Y Y

Spatial and Graph Data

Oracle Spatial and Graph N Y Extra cost option

Graph and Semantic Technologies (RDF/OWL) N Y Requires the Oracle Spatial and
Graph option and the Oracle
Partitioning option

Parallel spatisl index builds N Y

Multimaster replication of SDO_GEOMETRY objects N Y Single master/materialized view
replication for SDO_GEOMETRY
objects is supported

Parallel spatial indexes N Y Requires Oracle Partitioning option

REFERENCES

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