Oracle Web Cache is a secure reverse proxy cache and a compression engine deployed between Browser and HTTP server, Browser and Content Management server to improve the performance of web sites by caching frequently accessed content. Oracle Web Cache supports:

- Static content caching

- Dynamic content caching

- Partial Page catching

- Request Filtering.

- Online backup is one which is taken at the time the database is running in the ARCHIVELOG mode.

- Following files should be backed up during the Offline Backup: All data file, all control file and all online redo log file. But in the case of the online backup following files is backed up: All data files all archived redo log files and one control file via the alter database command.

- Offline database we cannot rely upon but in case of online database no issues.

- Offline backup no archived mode is required but in the online backup it is must.

The backup strategies that are provided by Oracle are as follows:

- Logical backup using Exports and import.

- Physical file system backup

- RMAN Recovery Manger which is also known as incremental files system backup.

Personal Oracle lite is single user database for distributed and mobile computing. It supports a full range of Java database features as well as advanced replication. Or in other words it is Oracle's lightweight, fully-functional, single-user object- relational database. A small, zero administration embedded database.

Some of the features supported:

- Java Support

- Java Store Procedure Support

- Java triggers Supported

- Multi-column indexing and outer joins.

- Easy to use graphical user interface

- Supports both object and relational database models

- Simultaneous viewing of classes and relational tables

We use SQLPASSTHROUGH options when we need applications to access data both in the front-end and back-end data servers with a single connection. SQL statements that cannot be executed in the solidDB front-end server are passed over to the back end. 

SQLPASSTHROUGH mode can be set as per session or per transaction. The connection between the front end and back end is made with a back-end compatible ODBC driver which is loaded dynamically in solidDB server.

Oracle HTTP Server is managed by OPMN which stands for Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server. With the use of opmnctl utility we can start, stop and restart Oracle HTTP Server. If we don’t use this utility the configuration management infrastructure cannot detect or communicate with the Oracle HTTP Server processes, and problems may occur.

The startproc command for the case of Windows is: ORACLE_HOME\opmn\bin> opmnctl [verbose] startproc ias-component=HTTP_Server.

To stop Oracle HTTP Server, use the stopproc command: Windows: ORACLE_HOME\opmn\bin> opmnctl [verbose] stopproc ias-component=HTTP_Server.

Oracle HTTP Server is the Web server component of Oracle Database. It is based on the Apache HTTP Server. It is robust and reliable server due to following features:

- Provide high availability infrastructure integration with Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN), for process management, death detection and failover for Oracle HTTP Server processes.

- Provide Dynamic Monitoring Services (DMS) metrics that give runtime performance statistics for Oracle HTTP Server processes.

- Enable securing of transactions with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.

- Execute Perl scripts in the same process as the Oracle HTTP Server, or as CGI script.

Basic Replication : Basic replication is implemented using standard CREATE SNAPSHOT or CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statements. It can only replicate data and not procedures, indexes replication is always one-way, and snapshot copies are read only.

Advanced Replication : Advanced replication supports various configurations of updatable snapshot, multi-master and update anywhere replication. It is more difficult to configure but allows data and other database objects like indexes and procedures to be replicated.

Differences between Basic and Advanced replications:

- With basic replication, data replicas provide read-only access to the table data whereas advanced replication features extend the capabilities of basic read-only replication by allowing applications to update table replicas throughout a replicated database system.

- With Basic Replication applications can query data from local data replicas. On the other hand with advanced replication, data replicas anywhere in the system can provide both read and update access to a table's data.