OID makes the following features available from within an Oracle database environment: OID uses standard Oracle database structures to store its internal tables.
Relevant default schemas used may include ODS (for "Oracle directory server") and ODSCOMMON.
[2] The OID Monitor process interprets and executes the OIDCTL commands.
Oracle database version 9 included OID bundled as an extra facility.
As of 2006[update] OID shipped with the Oracle Application Server version 10.