Oracle 12.1c in-memory database

Oracle Makes Big Promises After Weak Earnings - Software - Enterprise:
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Ellison also revealed that Oracle will announce a 12c upgrade by year end that will delivery in-memory capabilities, a clear response to SAP Hana as well as in-memory database enhancements promised by IBM and Microsoft.

"Oracle 12.1c will be an in-memory database designed to work exceedingly well with our M-Series [Sparc] machines, which have more memory than any other computer on the planet," said Ellison, noting that the M-Series offers 32 terabytes of RAM. "One of the reasons I was very confident that SAP Hana could never compete with Oracle over the long term is because of 12.1c.""

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So relational databases will for NoSQL try similar "trick"
used to compete with Object and XML databases before,
"embrace and extend"...