CRN Network, February 25, 2010, 1130 hrs
Oracle recently introduced its fastest, online transaction processing machine in the Indian market. Called Exadata Version 2, the system features Exadata Smart Flash Cache, which is based on Sun’s FlashFire technology.
The solution is aimed at customers with very large databases, and is designed to provide faster database access and OLTP capabilities. Based on standard x86 architectures, the system is designed on a parallel architecture hence can be expanded incrementally by adding storage servers, database servers, and network switches to its fault-tolerant grid architecture.
Its Smart Flash Cache technology addresses the random disk I/O bottleneck by transparently moving transactional data to Sun FlashFire cards. The solution is also capable of offering a high-bandwidth, massively parallel solution with the capability to deliver up to 50Gbps of raw I/O bandwidth and up to 1,000,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS), thereby enabling high performance OLTP along with consolidation of data warehouse and OLTP workloads onto the same system.
Oracle claims that with this machine, customers can store more than ten-times the amount of data and search data more than ten-times faster without making any changes to applications.
Featuring the Oracle 11g Release 2 and the Exadata Storage Server Software Release 11.2, the system also includes the Hybrid Columnar Compression. The company claims, it delivers ten times more average table compression for data warehouse data; with corresponding increase in table scan performance.
Also included is the Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) software which enables the system to provide scale-out grid computing functionalities. The system also features high speed InfiniBand connectivity which is designed to provide faster connectivity.
The new machine is targeted at enterprises in the manufacturing, government, telecom, financial and public sectors. The machine is available in four models: full rack (8 database servers and 14 storage servers), half-rack (4 database servers and 7 storage servers), quarter-rack (2 database servers and 3 storage servers) and a basic system (1 database server and 1 storage server). |