Oracle recently introduced its fastest, online transaction
processing machine in the Indian market. Called the Exadata Version
2, the system features the Exadata Smart Flash Cache, which is
based on Sun’s FlashFire technology.
The solution is aimed at customers with very large databases, and
is designed to provide faster database access and OLTP
capabilities. Based on standard x86 architectures, the system is
designed on a parallel architecture thereby allowing it to be
expanded incrementally by adding storage servers, database servers,
and network switches to its fault-tolerant grid architecture.
The Smart Flash Cache technology addresses the random disk I/O
bottleneck by transparently moving transactional data to Sun
FlashFire cards. The solution is also capable of offering a
high-bandwidth, massively parallel solution with the capability to
deliver up to 50 GB per second of raw I/O bandwidth and up to
1,000,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS), thereby enabling high
performance OLTP along with consolidation of data warehouse and
OLTP workloads onto the same system.
Oracle claims that with this machine, customers can store more than
ten-times the amount of data and search data more than ten-times
faster without making any changes to applications.
Featuring the Oracle 11g Release 2 and the Exadata Storage Server
Software Release 11.2, the system also includes the Hybrid Columnar
Compression which the company claims, delivers ten times more
average table compression for data warehouse data; with
corresponding increase in table scan performance.
Also included is the Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) software
which enables the system to provide scale-out grid computing
functionalities. The system also features high speed InfiniBand
connectivity which is designed to provide faster connectivity.
The new machine is targeted at enterprises in the manufacturing,
government, telecom, financial and public sectors. The machine is
available in four models: full rack (8 database servers and 14
storage servers), half-rack (4 database servers and 7 storage
servers), quarter-rack (2 database servers and 3 storage servers)
and a basic system (1 database server and 1 storage server).
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