Oracle Advanced Compression

Oracle Advanced Compression provides database-compression capabilities that improve performance while reducing storage costs. Oracle Advanced Compression reduces an organization’s overall database storage footprint for all types of data—relational (table), unstructured (file), index, Data Guard redo, network, and RMAN backups—and also improves performance for all components of the database infrastructure, including memory and network bandwidth.

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Explore Oracle Advanced Compression features

Reduce database storage

50% (or more) database storage reduction

Use Oracle Advanced Compression to achieve at least a 2X reduction in overall database storage—with little or no disruption during implementation.

Defer future database storage purchases or leases

Reduce the total application database data size to better use existing database storage and lower growth in the future.


Oracle Advanced Compression customer successes

Organizations use Oracle Advanced Compression to efficiently manage data growth, minimizing database storage-related costs while continuing to achieve the highest levels of application query performance.

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Learn how Goodman Fielder used Oracle Advanced Compression to reduce storage requirements and improve performance.

Oracle Advanced Compression use cases

  • Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications

    With 100% application transparency application and SQL changes are not needed to use Oracle Advanced Compression with COTS applications.

  • Any size OLTP and data warehouse applications

    Robust compression and improved query performance are key benefits for any size of custom OLTP or data warehouse application.

  • Data lifecycle management

    Data lifecycle management enables organizations to understand their data access over time and optimize their database compression and database storage tiering based on their current data usage.

    See how Yapı Kredi Bank reduced data lifecycle management administration time and costs with Oracle Advanced Compression.

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