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Oracle Exadata X6 Database Machine

Flash performance, massive storage capacity, real-time OLTP

Oracle International Corporation released the Exadata X6 Database Machine, introducing game-changing performance, capacity and availability, all at no additional cost.

ORACLE_exadata-x6-2Exadata continues to lead the industry with technology that delivers performance and the best price/performance for OLTP, analytics and consolidated database workloads.

Exadata X6 features the latest, fastest Xeon processors, ultra-fast IB networking, scale-out Exastorage Servers with all-flash or disk plus flash storage, and Exadata’s exclusive Storage Server Software. Since its 2008 debut, Exadata has redefined the integration of hardware, software and cloud, introducing dozens of breakthroughs unmatched by other database, systems or cloud vendor.

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,” said Juan Loaiza, SVP, systems technologies, Oracle. “The new Oracle Exadata X6 delivers flash performance that rivals DRAM performance, and much faster and more reliable OLTP. The same Oracle Exadata technology is now available as a cloud service to enable the most effective database cloud service in the world.

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Memory level performance with shared flash

Exadata X6 is a database platform that combines 3D V-NAND flash with database intelligence in storage to achieve near DRAM level throughput from shared flash. It achieves over 300GB/s of data throughput per rack, which is more than ten times faster than competitors’ all-flash storage arrays. It enables in-memory performance at one-tenth the cost of pure in-memory platforms.

Exadata breaks petabyte barrier
The High Capacity variant of Exadata X6 uses state-of-the-art helium-filled 8TB disks to deliver more than 1.3PB of disk capacity per rack. In addition, integrated intelligent flash caching delivers the performance of flash with the economics of disk capacity.

The Extreme Flash (all-flash) variant of Exadata X6 delivers more than 358TB of NVMe flash per rack. This flash capacity exceeds the maximum capacity of competitors’ all-flash storage arrays available in the market. Exadata can scale to more than 6PB of flash with multiple racks.

Exadata’s Hybrid Columnar Compression technology is able to increase storage capacity by an average factor of 10X, providing dramatically better price-capacity for large data warehouses and consolidated database workloads.

Real-time, all-the-time OLTP
Exadata X6 breaks barriers to real-time OLTP. Traditionally, OLTP scaling has been limited by random I/O bottlenecks, but Exadata X6 achieves over 5.6 million I/O/s per rack, outperforming competitors’ all-flash storage arrays.

Another barrier to OLTP performance has been inter-node server coordination. The Exadata IB-based algorithms such as the Direct-to-Wire protocol and Smart Fusion Block Transfers increase the speed of OLTP messaging by up to a factor of three.

All-the-time OLTP is supported through Exadata’s full-stack integration for instant detection of failures, sub-second redirection of I/O around failing devices, and fast problem resolution. Database In-Memory fault-tolerance adds an additional layer of protection for the most performance-sensitive mixed workloads.

Exadata Database Machines are frequently used for database consolidations and mixed-workload applications. To help eliminate ‘noisy neighbor’ interference with OLTP workloads, Exadata prioritizes critical workloads end-to-end from CPU, to network, to storage.

ORACLE_exadata-x6-2Exadata on cloud
In addition to purchasing the Exadata X6 for deployment on premises, Oracle now offers the option of using Exadata via the Database Exadata Cloud Service. The company’s experts deploy and manage it. The service offers all of the firm’s Database Enterprise Edition features and options and is available via metered or subscription licensing.

The firm also recently announced Oracle Cloud at Customer, which enables customers to run Oracle Cloud Services on their premises. All of the Database Cloud Services, including the Exadata Database Cloud Service will be available via this offering.

Additional X6 engineered systems
In addition to the Exadata X6, the company is announcing X6 upgrades for two additional engineered systems:

  • Firm’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance incorporates the X6 technologies to further enhance firm’ database protection featuring completely automated recovery, restore, backup, and logging; sub-second RPO to eliminate data loss exposure; and increased database performance by offloading backup processing.

  • SuperCluster M7, integrated with Exadata X6 storage servers, is a platform for company’s database and application consolidation solutions, allowing customers to maximize the performance and availability of both databases and applications in a single engineered system.

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