Oracle Database 12c for SAP Certification Status

The Oracle Database is the #1 database among SAP customers around the globe, with a large customer base that gains long-term cost benefits from the two companies’ integrated technologies. Organizations can run SAP applications with Oracle databases on the same code base on Unix, Linux, and Windows operating systems.

Oracle Database 12c for SAP Certification Status

Oracle Database 12c (including Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c and Oracle Real Application Clusters 12c) is certified for NetWeaver-based SAP products.

Oracle Database 12c for SAP Certification Roadmap

Phase 1 (completed in March  2015):

To ensure sufficient overlap with Oracle Database 11g, which is available to SAP customers as a fully supported version until the end of January 2016, SAP has certified Oracle Database 12.1.0.2, thereby breaking the "terminal release" custom (certification of Oracle Database release x.2, no certification of release x.1) valid to date. This initial certification (base certification) did not include major new options.
For details about Oracle Database 12c new features included in the base certification see the article Oracle Database 12c for SAP–Roadmap and Base Certification Features.

Phase 2 (completed in June 2015):

• Oracle Database In-Memory

Phase 3 (planned for Q4 CY 2015):

• Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)/Automatic Data Optimization (ADO)
• Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) (PDF) for Oracle Exadata and Oracle SuperCluster

Phase 4 (planned for CY 2016):

• Oracle Multitenant

For more information: Oracle Database 12c for SAP–Roadmap and Base Certification Features (PDF) (extract from Oracle for SAP Technology Update 2015).
Benchmark Results Reveal the Benefits of Oracle Database In-Memory for SAP Applications
Using the SAP BW-EML benchmark Oracle has proved Oracle Database 12c with the Oracle Database In-Memory option outperforms SAP HANA by a factor of 2X on the same Intel processor for SAP workloads.

A new white paper provides an overview of the benchmark, details on benchmark results achieved, and a description of the unique database technology used.