The important features of this release were Native Internet protocols and Java. Later on, 8i was released where ‘i’ means the internet.
Oracle8: It was first released in June 1997. It also introduced a parallel server option which means it supports simultaneous database access from two or more loosely coupled systems. Oracle7: This was released in the year 1992 and it was an important release because it was this release that introduced PL/SQL that is Procedural SQL stored procedures so that it increases the reusability, triggers if we need to do any operation based on any insertion or updation, shared cursors. OracleV6: It was released in the year 1988 and for the first time row-level locking, online backup, and recovery was introduced for the first time in this releaseĦ. This release was a very important breakthrough.ĥ. It may be stored in multiple computers which are located in the same physical location. OracleV5: This was released in the year 1985 and it introduced for the first time client-server computing and distributed database systems which mean not all storage devices are attached to a common processor. OracleV4: This was released in the market in the year 1984 and it had all the features of the previous versions but with one very noted addition was it was compatible with the MS-DOS operating system developed by Microsoft.Ĥ. It brought many new features like concurrency control and scalability.ģ. OracleV3: This was the second launch in the year 1983. It only was able to run some SQL queries and perform few join operations.Ģ. The version was very basic if we are going to compare now. It was launched in the year 1979 and the ‘V’ letter stands for version and ‘2’ stands for the second version. OracleV2: This was the first commercially available SQL RDMS launched by Oracle in the market. Hadoop, Data Science, Statistics & othersġ.