New with Oracle Database 12c is Oracle Multitenant. This feature allows you to create and maintain many pluggable databases within an overarching multitenant container database. Following is a concise introduction to pluggable terminology.
A multitenant container database (CDB) is defined as a database capable of housing one or more pluggable databases (PDB). A container is defined as a collection of data files and metadata that exist within a CDB. A PDB is a special type of container that can be easily ...
