Product Description
Oracle Standard Edition 2 (SE2) database software is a full-featured database that includes all features needed to build business applications. SE2 has a low-entry price and offers low maintenance costs as well as improved performance, reliability, and security.
Oracle Database Standard Edition Two (SE2) can only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 2 sockets. If licensing by Named User Plus, the minimum is 10 Named User Plus licenses.When used with Oracle Real Application Clusters, may only be licensed on a single cluster of servers supporting up to a total maximum capacity of 2 sockets.
Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition 2 delivers unprecedented ease-of-use, power, and price/performance for database applications on servers that have a maximum capacity of two sockets.
Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 is an affordable, full featured database that delivers unprecedented ease of use, power, and performance for work group, department-level, and web applications.
From single-server environments for small business to highly distributed branch environments, Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 includes all the facilities necessary to build business-critical applications with support for clustering of services with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). It also enables users to leverage a Multitenant architecture to provide more flexible and responsive management for their databases moving forward, provides enterprise-class performance and security, is simple to manage, and can easily scale as demand increases. Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 manages all data types and enables all your business applications to take advantage of the performance, reliability, security and scalability for which Oracle is renowned. It also provides complete upward compatibility with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, protecting your investment as your requirements grow.
Features :
- Fast Installation, Configuration and Self Management.
- Suitable for all types of data, and applications.
- Fully upgrade-able to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.
- Offers customers a container database architecture, making it easier to plug into the cloud
- SE2 replaced Oracle Databases Standard Edition (SE) and Standard Edition 1 (SE1) to make an enterprise-class database available to SMB customers.
- Optimized for deployment in small enterprises, line-of-business departments, and distributed branch environments
- Built-in Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management.
- High availability and rapid application development tools supporting a wide range of developer frameworks.
- Cost effective license model – licensed per Socket vs. Cores regardless of how many cores are added over time.
- Enables easy migration to the cloud.
- Protects your investments as usage requirements grow by offering upward compatibility.
- Zero-cost license migration from either SE or SE1 to SE2.
Benefits :
- Low cost entry price
- Low maintenance costs
- Reduced cost of downtime
- Proven performance, reliability and security
- Save money by buying only what you need today, and scale out as your demand changes with Real Application Clusters
- Improve Quality of Service with enterprise-class performance, security and availability
- Run on Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems and easily manage with automated, self-managing capabilities
- Streamline application development with Oracle Application Express, Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle Data Access Components for Windows
Technical Specifications :
- Maximum Sockets – 2
- Maximum Threads Per Database – 16
- The maximum core counts per 2-socket server can increase over time without impacting customer license obligation
- Minimum NUPS Per Server – 10
- When used with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), each Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 database may use a maximum of 8 CPU threads per instance at any time.
- RAC clusters are limited to 2 nodes, each node must be a single-socket server.
- RAM – OS Max
- Database Size – no limit
- Windows, Linux, Unix, 64-Bit Support
- SE2 is required when upgrading to database version 12.1.0.
Minimum Quantities :
The minimum license requirements for database products are in listed below.
Named User Plus licenses:
Program Named User Plus Minimum
Oracle Database
Enterprise Edition 25 Named Users Plus per
Processor
Oracle Database
Standard Edition 10 Named Users Plus*
Oracle Database
Enterprise Edition Options and Enterprise Managers Enterprise Edition
Options & Enterprise Managers must match the number of licenses of the
associated Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. In addition, a minimum of 25
Named User Plus licenses per Processor must be met. Associated Database is
defined as the database(s) which is (are) being managed by the option.
Oracle Standard Edition
One 5 Named Users Plus**
** Oracle Standard Edition One may only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 2 sockets. If licensing by Named User Plus, the minimum is 10 Named User Plus licenses.
If the user minimum is 25 Named Users Plus per processor, then follow the instructions below to calculate the minimum number of named user plus licenses required for your intended hardware configuration.
1. Determine the number of processors on each server where the programs are installed and/or running.
2. Add together the processors on each server.
3. Multiply the total number of processors by 25.
4. The resultant number represents the minimum number of named user plus licenses required for this hardware configuration.
Example: For Database Enterprise Edition on 3 servers each with 2 processors:
1. Number of processors on each server = 2
2. Total number of processors = 6 (3 servers x 2 processors = 6)
3. Multiply the total number of processors by 25 - the required minimum for Database Enterprise Edition is 25 named users plus per processor. (6*25 = 150 named users plus)
4. For this hardware configuration containing 6 processors the minimum number of named user plus licenses required for Database Enterprise Edition is 150.
Processor licenses:
The minimum is 1 for all Oracle Database Products.
Database licensing and user minimums
Example:
A customer who wants to license the Database Enterprise Edition on a 4-way box will be required to license a minimum of 4 processors * 25 Named User Plus, which is equal to 100 Named User Plus.
Processor:
This metric is used in environments where users cannot be identified and counted. The Internet is a typical environment where it is often difficult to count users. This metric can also be used when the Named User Plus population is very high and it is more cost effective for the customer to license the Database using the Processor metric. The Processor metric is not offered for Personal Edition. The number of required licenses shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores of the processor by a core processor licensing factor specified on the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table which can be accessed at http://oracle.com/contracts. All cores on all multicore chips for each licensed program are to be aggregated before multiplying by the appropriate core processor licensing factor and all fractions of a number are to be rounded up to the next whole number. When licensing Oracle programs
with Standard Edition One, Standard Edition 2 or Standard Edition in the product name, a processor is counted equivalent to a socket; however, in the case of multi-chip modules, each chip in the multi-chip module is counted as one occupied socket.
For example, a multicore chip based server with an Oracle Processor Core Factor of 0.25 installed and/or running the program (other than Standard Edition One programs or Standard Edition programs) on 6 cores would require 2 processor licenses (6 multiplied by a core processor licensing factor of .25 equals 1.50,which is then rounded up to the next whole number, which is 2). As another example, a multicore server for a hardware platform not specified in the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table installed and/or running the program on 10 cores
would require 10 processor licenses (10 multiplied by a core processor licensing factor of 1.0 for ‘All other multicore chips’ equals 10).
Note on Minimums:
Product Minimums for Named User Plus licenses (where the minimums are per processor) are calculated after the number of processors to be licensed is determined, using the processor definition.
