This release contains enhancements that will enable internationalization of customer applications allowing customers and partners to address new markets. With improved performance and reduced configuration overheads application development has never been easier. Users can also take their first steps into Big Data Analytics by applying the new Windowing functions to their existing transactional data.

New features include 2-D, 3-D and 4-D Spatial Data Types, Remote GCA, UTF-8 Transliteration, DBMS Level Authentication, IPV4 and IPV6 Data Types and Functions and Per-query Parallelism Level.