Engineered systems such as Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance, and Oracle’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance are preconfigured and preprovisioned so DBAs can get a complete, integrated solution for running and protecting the database.
For example, Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud can handle many different workload styles, including OLTP, data warehousing, spatial and graph analytics, document stores, the Internet of Things (IoT), and a mixture of all of these. With its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud can also make greater sense of the data within it—enabling a database that scales, repairs, and manages itself.
Database automation isn’t a new thing for Oracle. It started when our customers found that their hardware environments were limiting the full potential of their databases, becoming increasingly costly, and preventing them from scaling their database workloads to accommodate growth.
Oracle Exadata was explicitly designed with Oracle Database to solve these challenges. A dedicated hardware solution, Exadata was coengineered at the source-code level with the same team that builds Oracle Database. Features like Smart Scan, which prescreens queries in storage to return only relevant results to the server, and Smart Flash, which keeps the most-used data hot for fast and easy access, help reduce performance bottlenecks in a way that only coengineering can. And Hybrid Columnar Compression can intelligently group together column data with the same data types and characteristics to compress data over 10 times more effectively, allowing you to store more in Exadata and process more workloads even faster. And when you can run more workloads faster, you need less hardware overall.
While Exadata was coengineered to unleash the potential of Oracle Database, Recovery Appliance was created to better secure it. Unlike generic, one-size-fits-all backup solutions, Recovery Appliance was designed by the Oracle Database team to help organizations easily recover from errors, ransomware and other cyberattacks—without putting any data at risk of loss or nonrecovery. Unique, built-in Oracle Database integrations enable sub-one-second RPO, up to 50 percent less server overhead, and backup windows that are three times shorter. Automated backup validation, continuous data protection, and tape archival help secure data without adding additional administrative burden.
Leveraging Oracle Exadata and Recovery Appliance to run and secure your Oracle Database workloads just makes sense.