Oracle is one of the largest vendors in the enterprise IT market and the shorthand name of its flagship product,
a relational database management system (RDBMS) that’s formally called Oracle Database.
The database software sits at the center of many corporate IT environments, supporting a mix of transaction processing, business intelligence and analytics applications. It is one of the most popular relational database engines in the IT market for storing, organizing, and retrieving data.
Oracle database is compatible with a wide range of platforms such as Windows, UNIX, Linux, and macOS. It supports several operating systems like IBM AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Microsoft Windows Server, Solaris, SunOS, macOS, etc. In the late 1990s, Oracle began supporting open platforms like GNU/Linux.