Server

Oracle Server uses memory structures and processes to manage and access the database. All memory structures exist in the main memory of the computers that constitute the database system. Processes are jobs or tasks that work in the memory of these computers 

Oracle Linux and Oracle Enterprise Kernel

The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK), included as part of Oracle Linux, provides the latest open source innovations, key optimizations, and security for enterprise cloud workloads. This Linux kernel powers Oracle Cloud and Oracle Engineered Systems, such as Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Oracle Solaris Cluster

Solaris Cluster provides two types of HA services: failover services and scalable services. To eliminate single points of failure, a Solaris Cluster configuration has redundant components, including multiple network connections and data storage which is multiply connected via a storage area network.

Oracle Solaris

  • Solaris 8. Solaris is the UNIX-based operating system of Sun Microsystems with roots in the BSD operating system family
  • Solaris 9 operating system is now in the Sustaining Support period of it’s life cycle as of October2014. Customers with support contracts can still access patches and log new service requests
  • Solaris 10 provides a flexible background for securely dividing system resources, providing performance guarantees and tracking usage for these containers