Use the information in this appendix to select database shapes, or templates, for your planned databases.
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About Database Shapes
Review this information to help determine the database shape to use.
OLTP Database Shapes
Use Oracle Database Appliance OLTP Database Shapes if your database workload is primarily online transaction processing (OLTP).
In-Memory Database Shapes
Use Oracle Database Appliance In-Memory (IMDB) database shapes if your database workload can fit in memory, and can benefit from in-memory performance capabilities.
DSS Database Shapes
Use DSS database shapes if your database workload is primarily decision support services (DSS) or data warehousing.