Benefits for Oracle databases with massive data volumes (1)

With the development of enterprise business, there are more and more large data warehouses, and their scale is also expanding rapidly, increasing by three times every two years on average. Large Data Warehouses require scanning dozens, hundreds, or thousands of disks at the highest read speed. Therefore, enterprises often find that the larger the data warehouse, the slower the operation speed.

Oracle Exadata database machine, also known as "database cloud server", is designed to solve similar problems through high data compression ratio and Flash Cache caching of massive data, this satisfies the IO pressure and Storage pressure that high-end users have been facing for a long time. Previously, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison declared that the database machine is the most important product in Oracle's history for nearly 30 years.

 

▲Oracle Exadata database machine with Intel Xeon Processor

The following uses the Oracle Exadata database as an example, analyze the value of the x86 Platform for key enterprise-level business applications such as data warehouses, OLTP, and database hybrid loads from the perspectives of performance, availability, scalability, and investment costs.