The differences between Oracle Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are mostly differences in licensing and support.
Both companies use a different mechanism to count the number of installed instances.
Secondly Oracle Linux offers the choice of several types of kernel. you can have the same kernel Red Hat ships or you can have one of two types of kernels modified by Oracle.
Oracle's Unbreakable kernel includes some additional drivers (e.g. for SSD disks) that are not available in Red Hat's kernel. Because of these additions Oracle claims significant performance gains.
Off course you need to consider how much value you attach to such marketing claims and whether or not the situation applies to your environment. I.e. do you use SSD disks and infiband messaging?
On the other hand Oracle does IMHO not provide a real alternative for Red Hat Network Satellite server. That was a big influence in our decission to run our new Oracle Databases on standard RHEL servers. But again how important this is depends on your environment. Oracle Enterprise Manager has been extended with some management features.
With Oracle Linux, there are some bonus features that differentiate it from RHEL:
1. Unbreakable Kernel (Optimized OLTP, InfiniBand, and SSD disk access, NUMA-optimizations, Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), async I/O, OCFS2, and networking)
2. OCFS2 (Clustered file system)
3. Ksplice (Hot Kernel Patching without rebooting)
4. Dtrace (Ported from Solaris)
6. Cheaper support costs than RHEL
Both companies use a different mechanism to count the number of installed instances.
Secondly Oracle Linux offers the choice of several types of kernel. you can have the same kernel Red Hat ships or you can have one of two types of kernels modified by Oracle.
Oracle's Unbreakable kernel includes some additional drivers (e.g. for SSD disks) that are not available in Red Hat's kernel. Because of these additions Oracle claims significant performance gains.
Off course you need to consider how much value you attach to such marketing claims and whether or not the situation applies to your environment. I.e. do you use SSD disks and infiband messaging?
On the other hand Oracle does IMHO not provide a real alternative for Red Hat Network Satellite server. That was a big influence in our decission to run our new Oracle Databases on standard RHEL servers. But again how important this is depends on your environment. Oracle Enterprise Manager has been extended with some management features.
With Oracle Linux, there are some bonus features that differentiate it from RHEL:
1. Unbreakable Kernel (Optimized OLTP, InfiniBand, and SSD disk access, NUMA-optimizations, Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), async I/O, OCFS2, and networking)
2. OCFS2 (Clustered file system)
3. Ksplice (Hot Kernel Patching without rebooting)
4. Dtrace (Ported from Solaris)
6. Cheaper support costs than RHEL
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