Oracle DB on Mac? Yes You Can.

By Jake • April 13th, 2009 • 6 Comments

This announcement slipped past me last week, but if you subscribe to OraNA, you probably saw it already.

Oracle 10g has come to OS X Intel, and you can has.

According to Justin:

10.2.0.4 Database (Single Instance) Release for Apple MAC OS X on Intel x86-64 is now available for download on OTN.The physical media is to be dropped off to M&D next week.

This is a 64-bit release and provides a 32-bit client bundle as well for 32-bit customer applications. Also, available now are the 32-bit and 64-bit instant client downloads for 10.2.0.4.

The database is supported on the latest MAC OSX release – MAC OS X Leopard 10.5.4.

Rejoice! Especially if you’re a Ruby developer, like Rich, Anthony or Raimonds, this is a happy thing. No more running a VM to interact with your Oracle DB. Raimonds has a handy cheatsheet on the installation process, which could save you some time.

So now, maybe the second highest vote-getting idea on Mix can finally be retired. Or maybe not, since this isn’t an XE announcement. And yeah, it’s not 11g.

Picky picky.

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6 Responses to “Oracle DB on Mac? Yes You Can.”

Mac De Oracle Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Leopard de Oracle10g R2 (Intel x86-64) #1…

ひさびさに、Mac De Oracleらしい内容かも。。。:) Oracle® …
Mac De Oracle Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Leopard de Oracle10g R2 (Intel x86-64) #2…

Leopard de Oracle10g release 2 (Intel x8…
Justin Kestelyn Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I don't expect to see 11g Rel 2 on OS X/Intel anytime soon, but I'd be pleased to be surprised about that.

More optimistic about XE; I think the porting team is tired of hearing from me on that subject. But hey, let's get an 11g XE out there first!
Jake Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Heh, baby steps. This is a big deal, at least I think so. We'll see how it goes I guess. Curious to know the download metrics and feedback.
terrywang Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 3:27 am
It's good to see Oracle starts to support Mac OS X Intel platform. (Actually Oracle BPM Studio supports Mac OS X since version 6^^).

Well I would say I don't feel it make too much sense to install Oracle DB 10gR2 on OS X. But it does for Mac OS X Server.

Personally I prefer to install Oracle DB on Linux (RHEL/OEL or Debian/Ubuntu).
Jake Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Yeah, Oracle has run on the OS X PPC server for a while, I think, but this is the first Intel-supported DB.

That's likely why they ported 10.2 first, rather than XE, just guessing.

I think it makes plenty of sense to install 10g on OS X. Kind of a bias to assume a DB has to be installed on a “server” O/S. Plenty of startups out there are using OS X on laptops to start their services.

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