Oracle's answer to this dilemma is the materialized view. Database designers can use materialized views to prejoin tables, presort solution sets, and presummarize complex data warehouse information.

Oracle led the relational database management systems market in 2021 with a 32% share, closely followed by Microsoft with 31.7%, according to IDC.

With the debut of Oracle Database@AWS in December 2024, Oracle has finally reached partnerships with all three major hyperscalers to host Oracle Database and infrastructure at their data centers.