Oracle Business Intelligence

Oracle has announced Oracle Exadata, a “database machine”, marking the first ever hardware-based solution in Oracle’s product line.  This thing looks pretty impressive.  It’s basically a server rack that has 8 database servers and 14 storage servers and 4 24-port network switches, running Oracle 11g RAC on Oracle Enterprise Linux.  It supports up to 46 TB of user data, managed by Oracle’s Exadata storage software.  The server hardware is from HP, with some impressive specs:          8 x HP Proliant DL360 Database Servers, each with 2 x quad-core Intel Xeon (E5430) Processors 32gb Memory 4 x 146gb SAS hard drives 14 x HP Proliant DL180 G5 Exadata Storage servers, each with 2 x quad-core Intel Xeon (E5430) Processors 8gb Memory 12 x 1TB SATA hard drives (or 12 x 300gb SAS hard drives)

Altogether that’s 176 cores and 368gb total memory (go ahead, drool )  As usual, Oracle is touting performance (reporting 10x faster Data Warehouse performance), scalability (add Database Machines as needed), and reliability.

September 25th, 2008 | Category: Database | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL