Larry Ellison unveiled the next major milestone in database technology, Oracle Database In-Memory, on June 10, 2014.

Oracle Database In-Memory will be generally available in July 2014 and can be used with all hardware platforms on which Oracle Database 12c is supported.

• This option will accelerate database performance by orders of magnitude for analytics, data warehousing, and reporting while also speeding up online transaction processing (OLTP).
• It allows any existing Oracle Database-compatible application to automatically and transparently take advantage of columnar in-memory processing, without additional programming or application changes.

Benefits

• Fast ad-hoc analytics without the need to pre-create indexes
• Completely transparent to existing applications
• Faster mixed workload OLTP
• No database size limit
• Industrial strength availability and security
• Robustness and maturity of Oracle Database 12c

To find out more see

• Oracle Database In-Memory

• Comment from Rittman Mead on Oracle In-Memory Option Launch

 ... and I will let you know how this unfolds in regards to advantages for OBI11g and Exalytics and Big Data over the coming months.