Oracle
Database
Version | Initial
Release
Version | Initial
Release
Date | Terminal
Patchset
Version | Terminal
Patchset
Date | Marquee
Features |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle v2 | 2.3 | 1979 | | | First commercially available SQL-based RDBMS |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle v3 | 3.1.3 | 1983 | | | Concurrency control, data distribution, and scalability |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle v4 | 4.1.4.0 | 1984 | 4.1.4.4 | | Multiversion read consistency |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle v5 | 5.0.22 (5.1.17) | 1985 | 5.1.22 | | Support for client/server computing and distributed database systems |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle v6 | 6.0.17 | 1988 | 6.0.37 | | Row-level locking, scalability, online backup and recovery, PL/SQL |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle 6.2 | 6.2.0 | | | | Oracle Parallel Server |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle7 | 7.0.12 | June 1992 | | | PL/SQL stored procedures, Triggers, Distributed 2-phase commit, Shared Cursors, Cost Based Optimizer |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle 7.1 | 7.1.0 | | | | Parallel SQL Execution |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle 7.2 | 7.2.0 | June 1992 | | | Shared Server, XA Transactions, Transparent Application Failover |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle 7.3 | 7.3.0 | June 1992 | 7.3.4 | February 1996 | Object-relational database |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle8 Database | 8.0.3 | June 1997 | 8.0.6 | | Recovery Manager, Partitioning |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle8i Database | 8.1.5.0 | 1998 | 8.1.7.4 | August 2000 | Native internet protocols and Java, Virtual Private Database |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle9i Database | 9.0.1.0 | 2001 | 9.0.1.5 | December 2003 | Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle XML DB |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle9i Database Release 2 | 9.2.0.1 | | 9.2.0.8 | April 2007 | Advanced Queuing, Data Mining, Streams, Logical Standby |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle Database 10g Release 1 | 10.1.0.2 | 2003 | 10.1.0.5 | February 2006 | Automated Database Management, Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor, Grid infrastructure, Oracle ASM, Flashback Database |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 | 10.2.0.1 | July 2005 [9] | 10.2.0.5 | April 2010 | Real Application Testing, Database Vault, Online Indexing, Advanced Compression, Data Guard Fast-Start Failover, Transparent Data Encryption |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle Database 11g Release 1 | 11.1.0.6 | September 2007 | 11.1.0.7 | September 2008 | Active Data Guard, Secure Files, Exadata |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 | 11.2.0.1 | September 2009 [10] | 11.2.0.4 | August 2013 | Edition Based Redefinition, Data Redaction, Hybrid Columnar Compression, Cluster File System, Golden Gate Replication, Database Appliance |
Old version, no longer supported: Oracle Database 12c Release 1 | 12.1.0.1 | July 2013 [11] | 12.1.0.2 | July 2014 | Multitenant architecture, In-Memory Column Store, Native JSON, SQL Pattern Matching, Database Cloud Service |
Older version, yet still supported: Oracle Database 12c Release 2 | 12.2.0.1 | September 2016 (cloud) March 2017 (on-prem)
| | | Native Sharding, Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, Exadata Cloud Service, Cloud at Customer |
Current stable version:Oracle Database 18c | 18.1.0 | February 2018 (cloud: 18.1.0) July 2018 (on-prem: 18.3.0)
| | | Polymorphic Table Functions, Active Directory Integration |