Oracle Database 11g XE in the Cloud
Oracle Database 11g XE has been in beta for several months now. On September 2, the production release was made available for Windows 32-bit and Linux 64-bit platforms. This lightweight version of the juggernaut database of world is geared towards students, developer and ISVs. You can find the full feature list here . Having played around with the beta version I decided it was time to take a stab at deploying it in the cloud - more specifically Amazon AWS EC2. I started off by selecting the Oracle Linux 5.6 x86_64 - OVM (ami-42778a2b) to launch a micro-instance of Oracle Linux. The micro-instance has 613MB of physical memory, 2GB swap and 15GB EBS storage. [root@ip-10-242-49-142 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo | grep SwapTotal SwapTotal: 2104504 kB [root@ip-10-242-49-142 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal MemTotal: 629760 kB Once you download the installation archive from OTN and save it to your computer, you'll have to transfer it to your EC2 instance. ...