Avalon's proprietary tool Somerset® builds on existing Oracle high availability tools including Oracle Partitioning and Oracle Redefinition. Some of the features of Somerset are:
• Minimal performance degradation
• Faster than current methods and puts less load on the system
• Clean go/no-‐go decision and cutover point
• Compatible with large packaged applications such as Siebel and E-‐Business Suite
• Rebuilds tables and their associated indexes to different storage tiers
• Defragments and reclaims space within tablespaces
• Orders row data to improve application data access
• Actions performed one table at a time or as a table group
• Robust validation, status reporting, and error handling
• Archived data is one of the key outputs of the process, not an afterthought
• Zero application downtime