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.
In its most general sense, an annuity is an agreement for one person or organization to pay another a stream or series of payments.Usually the term âannuityâ relates to a contract between you and a life insurance company, but a charity or a trust can take the place of the insurance company.There are many categories of annuities. They can be classified by: 1  Nature of the underlying investment â fixed or variable. Protection from creditors. 2  If you own an immediate annuity (that is, you are receiving money from an insurance company), generally the most that creditors can access is the payments as theyâre made, since the money you gave the insurance company now belongs to the company.