10 Designing Partitioned Applications

A partition in Essbase is the region of a database that is shared with another database. Partitioning can provide many benefits. Carefully review the design requirements to help you determine whether partitioning can meet your objectives.

• Understanding Partitioning

• Partition Design Requirements

• Replicated Partitions

• Transparent Partitions

• Federated partitions - see Integrate Essbase with Autonomous Database Using Federated Partitions