Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Advanced Compression helps manage more data in a cost-effective manner. With data volumes, on average, tripling every two years, Oracle Advanced Compression delivers compression rates of 2-4x across all types of data and applications. Storage savings from compression will cascade throughout the data center, reducing network traffic and data backups as well. And by reading fewer blocks off disk, Oracle Advanced Compression also improves query performance.

Benefits:

• Lowers storage costs
• Reduces disk space requirements for all types of data
• Improves application performance
• Can be used with any type application without application changes