Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
September 12, 2012

Published in conjunction with the Quest Oracle Community (Quest), this bi-weekly publication contains news, market research, and insight for the Oracle ecosystem, as well as Quest news and information. Subscribers also receive Quest ResearchWire, a bi-monthly research report for the Oracle community.

News Flashes

New Products Simplify Integration of Multimedia Capabilities with Oracle Database

Database Plugins LLC, a company that specializes in the design, development and implementation of data-centric solutions for the Oracle market, has announced the availability of two new products. The Database Media-On-Demand Server provides specific support for the HTML5 video and audio tags as well as HTTP streaming of Flash videos. The Database Plugin Server and associated DBMPEG database plugin integrates the feature support of FFMpeg with the Oracle Database. The products form a fundamental framework for a multimedia server architecture, making it is easy for programmers and companies to import multimedia data and directly relate it with the relational data in their databases, Steve Guilford, president of Database Plugins, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Oracle Extends Commitment to R for Big Data Analytics

Oracle announced enhanced support for the R statistical programming language, including new platform ports of R for Oracle Solaris and AIX in addition to Linux and Windows, connectivity to Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database in addition to Oracle Database, and integration of hardware-specific Math libraries for faster performance. "Big data analytics is a top priority for our customers, and the R statistical programming language is a key tool for performing these analytics," says Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle Database Server Technologies.

Quest Introduces New Toad BI Suite to Bridge the Gap Between Business and IT

Quest Software has introduced Toad Business Intelligence Suite, a packaged suite of tools to link traditional and non-traditional data sources, bridging the gap between BI environments and distributed big data sources. In addition, Toad BI Suite aims to span the divide between technical and non-technical users by offering tailored interfaces designed to meet their individual data provisioning and analytic needs.