Five Ideas: Exadata Version 2
All About What Larry Ellison Calls the “Fastest Computer of Any Kind for OLTP”
September 2009
“Exadata Version 1 was the world’s fastest machine for data warehousing applications. Exadata Version 2 is twice as fast as Exadata V1 for data warehousing, and it’s the only database machine that runs OLTP applications. Exadata V2 runs virtually all database applications much faster and less expensively than any other computer in the world.”—CEO Larry Ellison
“This is about integrated engineering, bringing together the network, the server ntechnology and the storage technology to create something that's quite different to deliver that kind of performance. A million random read IOPS out of one machine—I have a technical term for that: Ridiculous. That's a tremendous database performance. That's never been achieved out of a single machine ever before.”—John Fowler, Executive Vice Presiden, Sun
“Looking at the bigger picture, appliances have been gaining favor for specialized applications such as data warehousing, but this announcement is a more general-purpose solution. Instead of being limited to the data warehouse, this solution could impact planning, merchandising, and supply chain applications as well. This could get interesting.”—David Dorf, Director of Technology Strategy for Oracle Retail
“Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison took to the stage today to unveil the Exadata 2 system, describing it as the first to combine data warehousing with online transaction processing... The Oracle chief also took time to rubbish the competition, claiming that the IBM 595 system offers the same processing power, but costs $10.7m (£6.5m) as opposed to $2.7m (£1.6m) for the Oracle equivalent.”—Iain Thomson, V3.co.uk
“Now, there are a number of very important implications of this next generation database machine. The most important one being Flash Cards! Imagine 500GB/sec of throughput from your system....”—Jean-Pierre Dijcks on The Date Warehouse Insider blog
