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Type System

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Access Control

Indexes

Partitioning

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Tables and Views

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Database Capabilities

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Relational Model

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$180

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Audit
Brute-force Protection
Enterprise Directory Compatibility
Native Network Encryption
Password Complexity Rules
Resource Limit
Security Certification

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Expression
Full-text
Hash
Partial
R-/R+ Tree
Reverse

Composite (Range + Hash)
Hash
List
Range

Cursor
Data Domain
External Routine
Function
Procedure
Trigger

Materialized Views
Temporary Table

On Premise

Blobs and Clobs
Common Table Expressions
Except
Inner Joins
Inner Selects
Intersect
Merge Joins
Outer Joins
Parallel Query
Union
Windowing Functions

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ACID
Referential Integrity
Transactions
Unicode

Forums

Object Model

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$400

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R-/R+ Tree

On Premise

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Highly Scalable
Import Data
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Multiple Threads
Parallel Processing
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