Anatomy of Oracle 9i

The Oracle Internet File System (Oracle 9iFS) is more than just a file system based on the database. It provides advanced content management features which allow users to manage how they collaborate on files. One of these features, versioning, allows users to retain snapshots, versions, of files as they are changed by authors. Oracle 9iFS stores the versions in the database and maintains a history of who changed the file and when.

Architecture Overview:

ORACLE- The Power To Business

ORACLE- The term nowadays is an alias to Reliability and Strength. Oracle's version 1 came in 1978, with its latest version is coming as Oracle Fusion in 2009.

There is a small view of Technology Timeline of Oracle below:

. 1979: offers the first commercial SQL RDBMS.

• 1983: offers a VAX-mode database.


• 1984: offers the first database with read consistency.


• 1986: offers a client-server DBMS.


• 1987: introduces UNIX-based Oracle applications


• 1988: introduces PL/SQL.


• 1992: offers full applications implementation methodology.


• 1995: offers the first 64-bit RDBMS.


• 1996: moves towards an open standards-based, web-enabled architecture.


• 1999: offers its first DBMS with XML support.


• 2001: becomes the first to complete 3 terabyte TPC-H world record.


• 2002: offers the first database to pass 15 industry standard security evaluations.


• 2003: introduces what it calls "Enterprise Grid Computing" with Oracle10g.


• 2005: releases its first free database, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE).


• 2006: becomes the global leader in CRM technologies by virtue of its takeover of Siebel Systems.


• 2008: smart scans in software speed query response in HP Oracle Database Machine / Exadata storage.