Oracle intros in-memory analytics machine for big data

BANGALORE, INDIA: Software major Oracle announced the launch of Oracle Exalytics in-memory machine, meant for big data analytics.

Oracle Exalytics machine is an in-memory hardware and software system engineered to run big data analytics.

It is comprised of Oracle’s Sun Fire server featuring 1 Terabyte of RAM and Intel Xeon E7-4800 processor with a total of 40 cores. It comes with Oracle BI Foundation software including Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Essbase featuring performance optimizations and an improved visualization environment for interactive analysis without limits on underlying data and classes of users.

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It also features Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database for Exalytics, based on Oracle’s in-memory RDBMS.

The company, which a few months back had unveiled its Big Data Appliance in India, now with this announcement is looking at an end-to-end platform for big data analytics.

Kapil Sood, vice president, systems business, Oracle India, said: "Data warehouse is going to evolve. Enterprises are today moving from enterprise data warehouse to enterprise analytic platform. The new Oracle Exalytics release, along with Oracle Big Data Appliance, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, is called the Big Data Solutions Platform and with this organisations can do analysis and get real time business value from big data."

Oracle Big data Appliance is an engineered system built to gather, organise and load unstructured data in to Oracle Database for analytics. The Oracle Exadata Database machine can analyse both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Oracle In-memory machine uses in-memory technology to deliver analytics, data visualisation, and performance management.

Mitesh Agarwal, CTO and director- solutions consultation, systems business, said that though this would mean that enterprises will have start storing additional data, however, the data thus collected need not be stored in a traditional and costly storage devices such as disk or tapes. Instead, it can be stored in Oracle's storage appliance, which can be later stored or deleted as per their relevance base on the company's analytics feedback.

"Our Big Data Appliance will be able to run unstructured data, and also run any data from any source, unlike the Exadata machine, which runs only structured data. The machines can individually talk to any other ODPC and JDPC standards based vendor machines also," Agarwal added.