Oracle Database is a multi-model database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation. It is a database commonly used for running online transaction processing, data warehousing, and mixed database workloads. Oracle Database allows you to quickly and safely store and retrieve data. Here are the integration benefits of the Oracle Database:

Oracle Database is cross-platform. It can run on various hardware across operating systems including Windows Server, Unix, and various distributions of GNU/Linux. Oracle Database has its networking stack that allows applications from different platforms to communicate with the Oracle Database smoothly. For example, applications running on Windows can connect to the Oracle Database running on UNIX. Commitment to open technologies – Oracle is one of the first Databases that supported GNU/Linux in the late 1990s before GNU/Linux become a commerce product. It has been supporting this open platform since then.

Oracle provides three main editions of Oracle Databases as follows:

• Enterprise Edition (EE) is the common and expensive edition of the Oracle Database.
• Standard Edition (SE) is a limited edition of the Enterprise Edition
• Expression Edition (XE) is a free-to-use version of the Oracle Database that available on both Windows and GNU/Linux platforms.