Introduction to SecureFiles

Oracle 11g Release 1 introduced SecureFiles to recoup the limitations of conventional LOBs in Oracle. The special engineered implementation of SecureFiles enables enhanced performance, data security, and better storage optimization. The induction of SecureFiles does not mean the extinction of older LOBs, instead older LOBs still live with the name BasicFiles. The feature SecureFile has arrived as a superset of LOBs in Oracle. Consequently, older LOBs, alias BasicFiles, can be smoothly migrated to SecureFiles. Hereby, we shall refer to older LOBs as BasicFiles only:

The SecureFile feature fuels up the database paradigms with advanced security and advanced storage options. A SecureFile can be independently enabled for transparent encryption, compression, and deduplication which contribute to its security and intelligence. The best part of SecureFiles is that, now no more different modeling strategies have to be adopted for structured data (relational) and nonstructured...