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Oracle Database
Exadata
Overview
Oracle Exadata is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and OLTP applications, making it the ideal platform for consolidating on private clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and redundant. With Oracle Exadata customers can reduce IT costs through consolidation, store up to ten times more data, improve performance of all applications, deliver a faster time-to-market by eliminating systems integration trial and error, and make better business decisions in real time.
At the heart of every Oracle Exadata Database Machine are Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, which combine smart storage software and industry-standard 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. Innovative technologies such as Exadata Smart Scan, Exadata Smart Flash Cache, and Hybrid Columnar Compression enable Exadata to deliver extreme performance for everything from data warehousing to online transaction processing to mixed workloads.

The Exadata Database Machine X2-8 is designed for database deployments that require very large amounts of data, delivering extreme performance and scalability for all applications including Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing (DW) and consolidation of mixed workloads. It comes complete with two 8-socket database servers, 14 Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, InfiniBand switches and more than 5 terabytes of Exadata Smart Flash Cache to support extremely fast transaction response times and high throughput.

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 comes in Quarter, Half, and Full Rack configurations to meet any application requirement and to enable you to easily scale as your requirements change. The Full rack comes complete with eight 2-socket database servers, 14 Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, InfiniBand switches and more than 5 terabytes of Exadata Smart Flash Cache to support extremely fast transaction response times and high throughput.

The Exadata Storage Expansion Rack enables you to grow the Exadata storage capacity and bandwidth of Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and X2-8 and SPARC SuperCluster. It is designed for database deployments that require very large amounts of data including: historical or archive data; backups and archives of Exadata Database Machine data; documents, images, file and XML data; LOB’s and other large unstructured data.