Exadata Database Service

Analyze larger data warehouses in the cloud

Starting shapes enable 1.5 PB data warehouses

Starting Exadata X9M configurations in OCI allow Exadata Database Service customers to use Hybrid Columnar Compression to limit their costs by using small systems that support up to 1.5 PB data warehouses. Nondisruptive scaling of vCPU resources between 8 and 504 vCPUs enable organizations to increase performance to meet peak requirements.

Independent scaling limits costs

Starting configurations can be expanded by independent scaling of compute and storage resources, allowing organizations to lower the cost of creating large data warehouses by only deploying the database servers and licenses they need.

Scalability improves insights

Fully scaled Exadata X9M configurations in OCI allow customers to create 31 PB data warehouses using typical 10:1 Hybrid Columnar Compression and accelerate their analysis with up to 3,072 storage server CPU cores to make fast, data-driven decisions.

Intelligent storage increases throughput

Exadata Database Service on X9M infrastructure offloads SQL processing and analytics to intelligent storage servers, enabling customers to analyze data at up to 2,880 GB/s.

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Accelerate transactional databases in the cloud

Starting shape enables up to 5.6M SQL IOPS

Starting Exadata X9M configurations in OCI allow Exadata Database Service customers to scale from 8 to 504 vCPUs of database compute power, enabling customers to accelerate OLTP databases with 5.6 million SQL read IOPS.

PMem enables industry-leading OLTP latency

Database-optimized persistent memory (PMem) integration reduces SQL read latencies to as low as 19 microseconds, allowing customers to process more transactions in less time and lower their costs.

Server scaling minimizes costs

Increasing the number of provisioned vCPUs from as few as 8 to as many as 8,064 while independently scaling storage allows organizations to lower the costs of running transaction-intensive workloads and easily grow configurations to support future requirements.

Online scalability accelerates IO intensive applications

Storage scalability to 3.1 PB of uncompressed database capacity, 96 TB of PMem, and 1.6 PB of high-performance flash cache allows customers to increase IOPS rates and throughput for OLTP applications, eliminating the complexity and costs of deploying multiple systems to meet performance requirements.

On-demand vCPU scaling controls costs

Online scaling of vCPU consumption allows customers to scale up to meet immediate database needs and scale down to minimize costs without interrupting database operations, enabling pay-per-use economics.

Automatic indexing improves performance

Automated creation, tuning, and deletion of indexes simplifies DBA workloads, which allows customers’ OLTP applications to run faster because indexes are continually optimized as workloads change.

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Rapidly create converged Oracle Database applications in the cloud

Unified support simplifies development

Support for diverse data types, including relational, document, and spatial, allows developers to easily create innovative applications using a single database and programming model.

Machine learning enables innovative applications

Built-in machine learning (ML) algorithms rapidly analyze data and build ML models within Oracle Database, allowing developers to easily add new capabilities to existing applications.

JSON support accelerates document databases

Built-in JSON support with simple document APIs and ACID transactions allows developers to quickly create applications using high-performance document databases running on Exadata Cloud Service's scale-out architecture.

Convergence reduces complexity

Converged databases allow developers to create independent microservices with different data types and access models while enabling IT teams to avoid the complexity of creating, deploying, and securing multiple databases.

Oracle Database In-Memory accelerates analytics

Oracle Database In-Memory allows developers to create innovative applications that embed real-time analytics within transactional applications. Automatic data conversion, location, and vectorized processing across multiple storage servers enable customers’ applications to run in real time.

Quickly create differentiated applications

Oracle Application Express (APEX) is included with Exadata Database Service, enabling developers to create applications faster with minimal coding, reducing costs and accelerating time to market.

Build with Oracle Exadata Database@Azure

Combine Microsoft Cloud capabilities and Azure application development tools and frameworks with the power of Oracle Database services in OCI.

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Increase availability and business continuity for Oracle Database in the cloud

Oracle MAA best practices increase uptime

Built-in Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) best practices increase database availability, allowing customer applications to continue to operate across component failures and data center outages.

Single-click deployments reduce downtime

Single-click deployment of Oracle RAC and Oracle Active Data Guard allows customers to easily protect databases from multiple levels of outages. Oracle RAC reduces planned and unplanned downtime with server-level fault tolerance, non-disruptive maintenance, and resource scaling, Oracle Database capabilities not supported on non-Oracle clouds.

Exadata Database Service protects on-premises databases

Using Exadata Database Service as an Oracle Data Guard target allows customers with on-premises Oracle databases to protect data in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and restore operations there if required.

Integrated data protection simplifies compliance

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure automation allows DBAs to enable Oracle Database backups with a single click. Customers protect encrypted databases in OCI object storage, providing an additional layer of protection against cyberattacks and simplifying compliance.

Maximum flexibility with up to 30 read replicas

Exadata Database Service allows customers to use up to 30 read-only standbys per primary database. The read replicas may be scattered across different regions, availability domains, other clouds, and on-premises.

Integrated data protection simplifies ransomware resiliency

Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service improves business resiliency using unique database-aware backup and recovery intelligence to protect Oracle databases running on OCI. Continuous transaction protection, automatic recovery validation, and fast, predictable recovery from ransomware attacks and human errors are available with just a few clicks in the OCI console.

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Improve operational efficiency with database consolidation in the cloud

Multiversion support simplifies consolidation

Support of Oracle Database 12c through 19c allows customers to simplify support for Oracle, ISV, and custom applications by consolidating them on a single service, regardless of the underlying database version.

Scalable resources enable greater consolidation

Up to 8,064 vCPUs and 44 TB of memory on database servers allow customers to reduce IT complexity and improve efficiency by consolidating more databases per service.

Storage capacity increases efficiency

Uncompressed databases of up to 3.1 PB in size enable customers to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs by consolidating more databases per services than with other cloud database services.

Resource management increases predictability

Oracle Exadata I/O Resource Management automatically prioritizes I/Os across different databases based on user-defined policies, allowing crucial customer databases to run at peak performance and all databases to obtain the resources they need.

Redundancy increases uptime

Exadata Database Service consolidates databases on highly scalable and available infrastructure instead of single-node services, allowing customer databases to support business operations across component failures and maintenance.

Consolidation increases performance and lowers costs

Consolidating databases with Exadata Database Service allows IT teams to dedicate more resources to crucial workloads during periods of peak demand, allowing customer applications to run faster and with lower costs.

Patch groups of databases and grid infrastructures in a single schedule

Exadata Fleet Update reduces maintenance operations for large-scale database deployments by grouping databases and grid infrastructures into a single maintenance cycle.

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Easily move enterprise database workloads to the cloud

Architectural equivalency simplifies moves

The same capabilities as on-premises Oracle Exadata systems allow customers to move existing workloads to the cloud without worrying about availability, scaling, or performance.

Migrate critical applications to Microsoft Azure

Oracle Exadata Database@Azure lets organizations run workloads where they choose, modernize and innovate with Oracle and Azure services, and simplify cloud purchasing and management using Oracle Database services from OCI that are deeply integrated with and colocated in Azure data centers.

Customer control reduces migration efforts

Customer control of database software and support of multiple database versions enable customers to move existing workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with the lowest possible effort.

Identical management reduces training requirements

DBAs have access to the same Oracle Database options and management packs available on-premises, simplifying moves and reducing training requirements.

Oracle-managed infrastructure reduces IT workloads

Oracle experts manage, patch, and maintain Exadata platforms in more than 42 OCI regions, reducing IT team workloads while eliminating data center-related costs.

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Securely run enterprise database workloads in the cloud

Encryption protects customer data

Always-on encryption with customer-controlled keys allows IT teams to protect information from unauthorized access to at-rest, in-motion, or backed-up databases.

Database security limits access

Integrated database security, including privileged user access controls, activity monitoring, and auditing, allows customers to protect data by limiting access to database software and databases.

Threat monitoring and blocking reduce risks

Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall monitor database traffic to detect and block threats, reducing customer risks while improving compliance reporting.

Oracle Data Safe

Oracle Data Safe allows customers to reduce risks by evaluating vulnerabilities and monitoring security controls from a unified control center. Identifying sensitive data and masking it for nonproduction usage helps DBAs address compliance requirements.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure enhances foundational security

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s security-first design with platform, connectivity, and operational security allows customers to focus on internal policies that impact security.

Certifications simplify adoption

Exadata Database Service offers extensive certifications and is available as commercial, government, or Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer services, allowing any customer to modernize their database environment.

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Lower total cost of running enterprise databases in the cloud

Flexible provisioning aligns resources with demand

Provisioning initial shapes to meet immediate needs and adding compute or storage capabilities in small increments when required allow customers to eliminate overprovisioning costs.

Intelligent storage reduces costs

Intelligent storage servers run SQL queries, analytics, and machine learning algorithms without consuming vCPU resources, increasing customers’ application performance and reducing costs.

Scalable vCPU consumption lowers costs

Nondisruptive up-and-down scaling of database vCPUs and per-second consumption pricing allow customers to tightly control costs by matching consumption to workload needs.

Flexible subscriptions with minimal commitments

Infrastructure with 48-hour minimum commitments and pay-as-you-go pricing models allow customers to minimize costs by paying only for the resources and duration required.

Pricing models reduce costs

All-inclusive and bring-your-own-license consumption models enable customers to manage costs with advanced capabilities or by leveraging current Oracle Database licenses.

Oracle-managed infrastructure reduces IT workloads

Oracle experts manage, patch, and maintain Exadata Database Service infrastructure, reducing customers’ infrastructure management costs while freeing resources to drive business growth.

Automate maintenance operations with Exadata Fleet Update

For large scale database deployments, Exadata Fleet Update automates maintenance operations grouping databases and grid infrastructures in a single maintenance schedule and cycle.

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