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Larry Ellison Announces Oracle Exadata V2: The First Database Machine for OLTP
The Sun Oracle Database Machine is the world's fastest for any type of database workload—and the only database machine that does online transaction processing (OLTP).
The new machine takes over where Oracle Exadata Version 1 left off. “Version 1 was the fastest database machine in the world,” says Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, noting that Oracle Exadata V1 customers have reported performance of 10 times to more than 50 times faster than that of their other data warehousing systems. Thanks to the newest generation of hardware, Oracle Exadata V2 is twice as fast as Oracle Exadata V1 for data warehousing.
Fastest Machine for OLTP
The new machine is also capable of online transaction processing, while competitors such as Netezza and Teradata are not. The Sun Oracle Database Machine is the “fastest machine in the world for data warehousing, but now it’s by far the fastest machine in the world for online transaction processing,” says Ellison.
At the heart of the Sun Oracle Database Machine is the Oracle Exadata Storage Server, which has smart storage software that offloads data-intensive query processing from Oracle Database 11g servers and brings it closer to the data.
A Million Random I/Os a Second
New to Oracle Exadata V2 is Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache, based on Sun FlashFire technology. Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache addresses the random disk I/O bottleneck by transparently moving “hot data” to Sun FlashFire cards. “We can do random I/O very quickly. In fact, a single-rack Sun Oracle Database Machine can do over a million random I/Os in a second,” says Ellison.
The Sun Oracle Database Machine is available in four models: full rack (8 database servers and 14 Oracle Exadata 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).
Oracle Exadata V2 costs less than competing systems—even before a customer figures in the cost of configuration. “All of the hardware and all of the software is preconfigured,” Ellison explains. “You roll in this box, you load up your data, and you run. You get it in the morning and you’re running by the afternoon with your existing applications unchanged.”
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