Oracle Express was a multi-dimensional database and application development environment for building OLAP applications. Normal relational databases store data in two-dimensional tables and analytical queries against them can be very slow.
Annuity Period: The length of time between income payments made under an annuity income plan; the time span may be monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually. Arbitrage: The act of buying and selling commodities in two markets at the same time to benefit from price differences between the markets.
There are two phases for a deferred annuity: 1  the accumulation or deferral phase in which the customer deposits (or pays premiums) and accumulates money into an account; 2  the distribution or annuitization phase in which the insurance company makes income payments until the death of the annuitants named in the contract.