Licence/Price for Oracle Database Cloud : DBCS/DBaaS vs Multitenant Service

In our Oracle Database Cloud Training for DBAs & Apps DBAs  one of trainee asked “Our company is looking for Oracle Cloud and received this Price List ”

What is difference between two options highlighted ?

Option 1: Oracle Database Cloud Service Standard Edition – High Memory – Non Metered – Hosted Environment
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Option 2: Oracle Database Cloud Multitenant Service BIS50 Hosted Environment

I posted this question in our private Facebook Group for Oracle Cloud

Answer to this question is in Cloud and Oracle Database Concepts.

DBaaS (Database as a Service) is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering , to know more about Cloud Concepts and SaaS, PaaS, IaaS check my previous post here

DBaaS is  also known as Oracle DBCS (Oracle Database Cloud Service) , RDS in Amazon AWS Cloud and SQL Azure in Microsoft Azure Cloud

They all rely on the Cloud Principles of Auto Provision , Mass Deployment , Scaling , Integration with Cloud Automation Tools via REST API etc.

Oracle Multi-tenant Cloud Service is a scaled down version of Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS) where as a customer you only get a PDB (Pluggable Database) with limited Storage & Memory.
This is suitable for small medium business or even for application developers who want to test their applications.

Coming Back to Question asked in Databadse Cloud Training 

Option 1: Oracle Database Cloud Service Standard Edition – High Memory – Non Metered – Hosted Environment :

In this option: You get a Standard Edition Database with High Memory (There are other options too like Enterprise Edition, High Performance and Extreme Performance)

Option 2: Oracle Database Cloud Multitenant Service BIS50 Hosted Environment

In this option: You get a Pluggable Database (PDB) from 12c Container Database (CDB)

Note: CDB & PDB are feature of Oracle Database 12c , more on Multitenancy CDB & PDB here

Related/Reference

• Oracle Cloud FAQ
• Oracle Database Cloud Pricing
• Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS) Training for DBAs for Experts

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