The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is an easy to deploy, pre-configures configured solution for hosting the Oracle database that delivers the absolute highest levels of database performance available today. Benchmarking studies have shown that queries can execute 10 times faster, and we have some antidotal stories of even more performance. It is important to note that we are not talking about a 10 percent to 20 percent increase, but actual multiples of 10. This is not just marketing speak, but actual experience we have had in the field.
So, what's so special about the Exadata Database Machine? Think of it as a cloud in a box composed of database servers, Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, an InfiniBand fabric for storage networking and all the other components required to host an Oracle database.
Further, there is onboard smart flash cache that is specially configured and controlled to run the database. It delivers outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for OLTP, data...