Oracle Database 21c’s free, native blockchain tables provide secure audit trail on transactions and processes
United Kingdom, Jan 13, 2021 /AlexaBlockchain/ – Oracle today announced Oracle Database 21c – the latest version of its converged database engine.
Oracle Database 21c contains more than 200 new innovations, including immutable blockchain tables, In-Database JavaScript, native JSON binary data type, AutoML for in-database machine learning (ML), and persistent memory store, as well as enhancements for in-memory, graph processing performance, sharding, multitenant, and security.
What are the benefits of Immutable Blockchain Tables?
Blockchain Tables bring the key security benefits of blockchain technology to enterprise applications. Part of Oracle’s Crypto-Secure Data Management, Blockchain Tables provide immutable insert-only tables whose rows are cryptographically chained together. By providing tamper detection and prevention capabilities directly in the Oracle Database, customers can protect against illicit changes by insiders or hackers impersonating administrators or users.
Blockchain Tables are part of the converged database, accessed with standard SQL, and support full analytics and transactions – making it orders of magnitude easier to use, and more functional, than existing blockchain implementations. Blockchain Tables are a free feature in all Oracle Database editions.
Andrew Mendelsohn, executive vice president, database server technologies, Oracle, said:
“It provides Immutable Blockchain Tables for tamperproof SQL tables. Competing vendors require separate JSON document, operational, analytic, graph, ML, and blockchain databases and services to support these capabilities. Oracle’s converged database approach makes developers far more productive when building new applications, and makes it easy to later evolve applications to meet new business requirements.”
Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Data Management Software, IDC, said:
“The 200 new built-in innovations, including immutable blockchain tables and AutoML for in-database machine learning, elevate Oracle Database 21c to a new level of functionality, eliminating the need for specialized, isolated cloud services and tools to do those jobs. Users can avoid the compounding of costs and operational complexity that comes with each additional cloud service that organizations ordinarily use. In this way, Oracle is effectively slicing away at this disjointed set of services with a simplified, more technically elegant, and integrated approach that is far better suited for the enterprise needs of 2021.”
Angelini Pharma, an Oracle client and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Italy, said:
“The Quinaryo XRing solution has been an important step ahead in our IoT strategy to experiment with a wearable device integrated with a data security tool based on a blockchain table solution,” said Pietro Berretoni, Digital & Innovation Head, Angelini Pharma. “With Oracle Blockchain Tables, the solution provides tamper-proof records that can easily integrate with other applications without requiring a complex new infrastructure. Oracle Database includes all the tools we know and new features like Oracle Blockchain Tables that we can leverage with XRing for sensible data collection.”