Oracle released the Oracle Exadata X6 Database Machine, introducing game-changing performance, capacity and availability, all at no additional cost.
The company states,
“Oracle Exadata continues to lead the industry with breakthrough technology that delivers extreme performance and the best price/performance for online transaction processing (OLTP), analytics and consolidated database workloads.”
Oracle Exadata X6 features the latest, fastest Intel Xeon processors, with ultra-fast InfiniBand networking, scale-out Oracle Exadata Storage Servers with all-flash or disk plus flash storage, and Oracle Exadata’s exclusive Storage Server Software.
Juan Loaiza, senior vice president of systems technologies, Oracle, states,
"Oracle Exadata is used by four of the five biggest banks, telcos, and retailers in the world because it delivers dramatically better OLTP, analytics and mixed workloads. The new Oracle Exadata X6 delivers flash performance that rivals DRAM performance, and much faster and more reliable OLTP. The same leading-edge Oracle Exadata technology is now available as a cloud service to enable the most effective database cloud service in the world."
Memory Level Performance with Shared Flash
Oracle Exadata X6 is the first and only database platform which combines the leading-edge 3D V-NAND flash with database intelligence in storage in order to achieve near DARAM level throughput from the shared flash. Oracle Exadata X6 enables in-memory performance at one-tenth the cost of pure in-memory platforms.
Oracle Exadata Breaks the Petabyte Barrier
The High Capacity variant of Oracle Exadata X6 uses state -of-the-art helium-filled eight terabyte (TB) disks to deliver more than 1.3 petabytes of disk capacity per rack. Along with this it integrates intelligent flash caching and delivers the performance of flash with the economics of disk capacity.
The Extreme Flash (all-flash) variant of Oracle Exadata X6 delivers more than 358 TBs of state-of-the-art NVMe flash per rack. This flash capacity goes beyond the maximum capacity of competitors’ all-flash storage arrays which is available in the market. Oracle Exadata can scale to more than six petabytes of flash with multiple racks.
Oracle Exadata’s industry-best Hybrid Columnar Compression technology is capable of increasing storage capacity by an average factor of 10X, providing better price-capacity for large data warehouses and consolidated database workloads.
