OLTP is a widely accepted technology known to deliver extreme performance and scalability for online transaction processing. Oracle has launched Oracle Exadata Version 2 in the Indian market, which it says is the world’s fastest and only online transaction processing machine. The primary aim behind this release is that data volumes are continuing to grow exponentially in India. The new machine is targeted at enterprises in the manufacturing, government, telecom, financial and public sectors.
Through Exadata Oracle hopes to enable enterprises make critical business decisions. The company intends to make access to the solution available round the clock in order to help IT managers to gain access to performance metrics and results whenever they need it.
Oracle says that with this machine customers can store more than ten times the amount of data and then search that data ten times faster without making any changes to applications. Oracle points out that a custom built OLTP solution, say by IBM, would cost four times more and that for the same investment, the Exadata would work four times faster.
Key features in the release include:
- Hardware components plus FlashFire technology from Sun, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software Release 11.2.
- Grid computing, enabled by Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) software, is at the center of the implementation because RAC is the foundation for its scale-out computing, extending across multiple server nodes.
- The Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression in Oracle Exadata V2 delivers 10x average table compression for data warehouse data; with corresponding increase in table scan performance
- This contains Exadata Smart Flash Cache, which integrates Flash technology with the database and delivers over 1 million I/Os per second and enabling extreme OLTP
- The application includes Task Optimization tools that supposedly allow utilities to reduce the number of steps in some of the most common processes. The Task Optimization tools can allow utilities to model their business processes, including configuring their own user interfaces to suit their needs, while ensuring all data entered are properly validated for accuracy. This enables the system to be even more intuitive and user friendly, helping to reduce required training and improve productivity and efficiency.
- With Oracle Exadata V2, Oracle Exadata Storage Servers are now known to deliver 50 Gigabytes per second of raw, uncompressed I/O bandwidth.
“Some of the world’s largest databases reside in India. Coupled with the breadth and depth of the SI and ISV community and their familiarity of Oracle Database here, it is no wonder that we have already seen successful Oracle Exadata Database Machine implementations undertaken by the top Indian SIs in overseas markets,” said Chris Chelliah, Senior Director & Chief Architect, Appliance and Strategic Solutions, Oracle Corporation, Asia Pacific Division. “By tapping their existing Oracle skillsets to build implementation services for industries such as financial services, communications, healthcare and the public sector, our partners can achieve a better return and lower risk at the same time by adopting this solution.”
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)
- Basic system (1 database server and 1 storage server)