Three types of partitions are there.
1. Transparent partition: A form of shared partition that provides the ability to access
and manipulate remote data transparently as though it is part of your local database.
The remote data is retrieved from the data source each time you request it. Any
updates made to the data are written back to the data source and become
immediately accessible to both local data target users and transparent data source
users.
2. Replicated Partition:
3. Linked Partition: