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:

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: