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.
What is an 'Annuity' An annuity is a contractual financial product sold by financial institutions that is designed to accept and grow funds from an individual and then, upon annuitization, pay out a stream of payments to the individual at a later point in time.