Oracle Multitenant enables an Oracle Database to function as a container database (CDB). A CDB consolidates multiple pluggable databases (PDB), a portable collection of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects. Whether deployed on-premises or in the cloud, with Oracle Multitenant, applications run unchanged in self-contained PDBs, improving resource utilization, management, and overall security.
Rapid cloning and provisioning
Local clones and remote clones
Database administrators save time by provisioning pluggable databases as clones locally or from across the network without disrupting the source.
Snapshot clones
Create storage efficient pluggable databases in seconds that mirror full data set copies of the source pluggable database for development and testing environments.
Refreshable PDBs
Maintain up to date copies of production databases by periodically topping them up with incremental transactions.
Manage many as one
Database consolidation
Achieve large scale consolidation with support for up to 4,096 (4k) pluggable databases per container database in Oracle Exadata, Oracle Cloud, and 252 pluggable databases per container database on other platforms, lowering costs for IT departments.
Improve productivity
Increase database administrator productivity by performing patching, backups, configuration, and upgrades centrally.