What is Personal Oracle Light?

Personal Oracle Light (POL) is a lightweight, single-user object/relational database that runs on desktops, laptops, down to the smallest hand help devices. It is designed for mobile and distributed applications.

Some of the main features are:

• POL runs in under 1 megabyte of memory, and can be installed in 3 megabytes of hard disk space;
• has full Java and SQL support (no PL/SQL);
• is ODBC and JDBC compliant;
• can handle up to 16 concurrent application connections;
• supports replication via file, HTTP, SQL*Net, and Oracle Mobile Agents;
• runs on WindowsNT, Windows95/98, WindowsCE, and PalmOS.

NOTE: One must download and install a Java VM from the
JavaSoft web site
before all Oracle Lite components can work properly.