Sun, Oracle unveil Exadata Version 2

MUMBAI, INDIA: Sun and Oracle unveiled the world’s first online transaction processing (OLTP) database machine. Exadata Database Machine Version 2. The Exadata Database Machine Version 2 is the world’s fastest machine for both data warehousing and OLTP.

Built using industry standard hardware components plus FlashFire technology from Sun, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software Release 11.2, the Sun Oracle Database Machine Version 2 is twice as fast as Version 1 for data warehousing.

The Sun Oracle database machine goes beyond data warehousing applications with the addition of Exadata Smart Flash Cache based on Sun FlashFire technology to deliver extreme performance and scalability for online transaction processing (OLTP).

Exadata Version 2 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). All four Exadata configurations are available immediately.

With the Sun Oracle Database Machine, Oracle 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.

Hardware from Sun

Sun’s FlashFire memory cards enable high performance OLTP

80 percent Faster CPUs – Intel Xeon (Nehalem) processors

50 percent Faster Disks – 600 GB SAS Disks at 6 Gigabits/second

200 percent Faster Memory – DDR3 memory

125 percent More Memory – 72 Gigabytes per database server

100 percent Faster Network – 40 Gigabits/second InfiniBand

Raw disk capacity of 100 TB (SAS) or 336 TB (SATA) per rack

Software from Oracle

Features the world's first flash-enabled database - Oracle 11g Release 2

Hybrid columnar compression for 10-50 times data compression

Scans on compressed data for even faster query execution

Storage Indexes to further reduce disk I/Os

Offloading of query processing to storage using Smart Scans

Smart scans of Data Mining models in storage servers

Applications running on the Sun Oracle Database Machine achieve up to 1 Million I/O Operations per Second to Flash Storage