Oracle Exadata

Oracle Exadata Storage Servers combine Oracle's smart storage software and Oracle's industry-standard Sun hardware to deliver the industry's highest database storage performance. To overcome the limitations of conventional storage, Oracle Exadata Storage Servers use a massively parallel architecture to dramatically increase data bandwidth between the database server and storage. In addition, smart storage software offloads data-intensive query processing from Oracle Database 11g servers and does the query processing closer to the data. The result is faster parallel data processing and less data movement through higher bandwidth connections. This massively parallel architecture also offers linear scalability and mission-critical reliability.

Exadata Smart Flash Cache
Now with the newest release of the Oracle Exadata Storage Server, you can also achieve extreme performance for transaction processing and consolidated mixed application workloads. Exadata Smart Flash Cache addresses the disk random I/O bottleneck problem by transparently moving hot data to Oracle's Sun FlashFire cards. You get ten times faster I/O response time and use ten times fewer disks for business applications from Oracle and third-party providers.

Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression
The most advanced data compression technologies are included in Oracle Exadata Storage Servers. Oracle Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression can, on average, reduce the size of Data Warehousing tables by 10x, and archive tables by 50x. This offers significant savings on disk space for primary, standby and backup databases, and will improve the performance of Data Warehousing queries.

• Read the press release announcing the Sun Oracle Database Machine
• Watch the internet seminar: A Technical Overview of Oracle Exadata
• Read the white paper: A Technical Overview of the Sun Oracle Database Machine (PDF)