Oracle
High-availability, high-performance Oracle for systems that can't go down.
Few consultancies bring this depth of Oracle experience to modern, always-on workloads. RhinoSource designs and tunes Oracle architectures that carry IoT-scale data for millions of users — and keep running through upgrades, failovers and relentless growth.
What we do
VLDB & partitioning architecture
store, retrieve and purge exponentially growing IoT data online, without downtime
RAC / Exadata high availability
fault-tolerant, multi-node designs built for strict SLAs
GoldenGate replication
active-active, multi-region data distribution
PL/SQL automation & performance tuning
the automation that keeps large Oracle systems healthy day to day
Database upgrades & validation
release analysis, AWR review and coordinated, low-risk upgrades (e.g., 19c)
Oracle Business Intelligence & reporting
interactive financial and operational reporting at enterprise scale
Selected work
Comcast Xfinity Home
Oracle Partitioning and GoldenGate active-active replication for a home-security IoT platform streaming from millions of homes
ADT Pulse
Oracle VLDB partitioning on RAC/Exadata with online, zero-downtime partition maintenance
Alarm.com
Oracle 19c upgrade validation across engineering, IT and DBA teams
National Express
interactive P&L reporting on Oracle Business Intelligence across 250 cost centers
Trusted by
Plus many more, across telecom, retail, financial services, government and industrial IoT.
Why RhinoSource
Dave Herrington was one of Oracle Corporation's original 12 Oracle Applications consultants and led DARC — a go-to Oracle Certified Partner, unequaled in North America for delivering successful Oracle ERP implementations — for nearly two decades. That's Oracle mastery, applied to the modern, IoT-scale, always-on systems your business runs on today.
Related case studies
Engagements in this practice — the problems, and what we did about them.
Comcast Xfinity Home
Comcast Xfinity Home Oracle Scalability and Replication Architecture
RhinoSource designed the Oracle Partitioning and GoldenGate active-active replication behind Comcast's Xfinity Home IoT platform, and traced a regional wave of false alarms to a bad batch of sensor batteries failing in freezing temperatures.
National Express
National Express Oracle Business Intelligence OBIEE Reporting and Database Monitoring
RhinoSource designed, developed and deployed an interactive profit and loss reporting solution on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, rolled out to 250 cost centers across North America, and implemented high-precision Oracle database and application monitoring.
From the blog
- Partitioning Oracle for IoT Scale Without Downtime
When IoT sensor data grows exponentially, DELETE stops working as a purge strategy. Here's how range partitioning turns data retention into a metadata operation — and how to get there on a live system.