This document discusses Oracle Database 12c's Multitenant architecture, which allows for more efficient consolidation of multiple pluggable databases (PDBs) within a single container database (CDB). Key benefits include more flexible provisioning of new databases, simplified cloning and upgrades done at the CDB level, and improved resource utilization through workload separation. While Multitenant is only available in the Enterprise Edition, the plug/unplug functionality can provide benefits even for single-tenant use cases.