Highly Scalable and Elastic Database Workload Platform: Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service
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What is Oracle Exadata?
Oracle Exadata is an enterprise database platform that runs Oracle Database workloads of any scale and criticality with high performance, availability, and security. Exadata’s scale-out design employs optimizations that let transaction processing, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads run faster.…
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What is Oracle Exadata?
Oracle Exadata is an enterprise database platform that runs Oracle Database workloads of any scale and criticality with high performance, availability, and security. Exadata’s scale-out design employs optimizations that let transaction processing, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads run faster. Consolidating diverse Oracle Database workloads on Exadata platforms in enterprise data centers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and multicloud environments helps organizations increase operational efficiency.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Oracle Exadata is an enterprise database platform that runs Oracle Database workloads of any scale and criticality with high performance, availability, and security. Exadata’s scale-out design employs optimizations that let transaction processing, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads run faster. Consolidating diverse Oracle Database workloads on Exadata platforms in enterprise data centers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and multicloud environments helps organizations increase operational efficiency.
Amazon Redshift and Microsoft SQL Server are common alternatives for Oracle Exadata.
The most common users of Oracle Exadata are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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April 01, 2022
Highly Scalable and Elastic Database Workload Platform: Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service
- Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service provides elasticity and scalability.
- Consolidation of thousands databases in one unified solution.
- It involves less time to run analytics workloads.
- Lack of enough documentation and whitepapers for features.
- High Speed Computing
- History Tables
- Implementation of temporary tables
- SQL Developer attempt to convert T-SQL to PL-SQL could be better
- Zero downtime for Oracle patches
- Faster I/O as compared to non-exadata
- Scripting using bash and sh
- Patching is complex because of zero downtime
- Configuration is complex
- Hardware needs improvement
April 01, 2021
Exadata does better than most
- RAC/clustered database technology
- RMAN duplicate and cloning
- Full sh/bash/ksh support
- Generally faster i/o throughput versus non-exadata
- Patching can often become quite involved and convoluted. It should be more transparent and straightforward.
- Storage metrics can be difficult and time consuming to obtain.
- Basic administrative functions can be hard to repair when discovered.
- Vendor support can take a while to obtain. Generally several attempts are necessary to reach the right area of vendor expertise.
October 31, 2019
Exadate the real database machine
- The transaction process is very fast.
- Scalable and reliable.
- The best IO performance for large data.
- Hardware support needs improvement.
- Configuration should be easy, and customers should be able to handle it without experts.
- It should also be available with the Solaris operating system.
October 23, 2019
The best you can get!
- Fast.
- Effective.
- Easy to migrate.
- Can be time-consuming in the beginning.
- Customize-able for specific functionality optimized for combination of online transaction or analytical processing.
- Ability to serve mix workloads with resource management feature enables prioritizing allocation for certain workload.
- Scale-able on-premise with compatibility for cloud deployment offers flexible solution for organization considering to transition from on-premise solution.
- Integrating with different types of databases can be a challenge
- Having a hardware platform optimized to run specific database software surely comes with a price
- Single vendor to support same hardware and software will make migrating to different hardware and/or software become a hassle
September 18, 2019
No Alternative Competes
- Increased performance of queries without indexes.
- Maximize usage of Oracle Database licenses.
- Offload SQL queries to storage.
- Upgrade Infiniband to 100Gb.
- Better service by Platinum Services.
September 17, 2019
Thoughts on Exadata
- Database compression is excellent.
- 12 C containers for VM databases.
- Would be nice to have a better connection with different vendors or external storage or products.
September 17, 2019
Exadata Review
- Storage cell offload
- Full table scans
- Manages itself
- Easier to add storage - it only gets shipped with so much and you have to purchase additional storage. That's not cheap, and they have to be installed.
- [Could be] less expensive
September 17, 2019
Exadata is wonderful
- Cell smart-scans.
- Storage indexing.
- OS monitoring.
- SNMP configuration.
- Integration with OEM.
September 17, 2019
Built to run mission-critical databases
- Availability.
- Performance.
- Security.
- Time to provision - It takes a whole village to provision a brand new Exadata. Would be great if the time to provision could be decreased.
September 17, 2019
Oracle Exadata: Best for Analytics and OLTP
- Sparse clone helps us to quickly provision the dev/ test databases in less than 30 minutes and also saves storage.
- Compression features in Exadata greatly helped us to save storage and improve performance.
- Redundancy at every level in Exadata keeps our Oracle databases always up.
- Platinum patching support is not as good as we expect.
April 19, 2019
In Expectation of the New Exadata Database
- Performance in running the database
- Fast execution and easy to plug in
- All in one solution
- Scalability and upgrades
- Allowing to run with VMware
- Upgrade from old machine to new one. If you have an old machine, it is quite hard to upgrade them as Oracle withdraws some products after a new release. So, it is not cool for a customer who wants an upgrade but has to buy a new machine because the old one doesn’t exist anymore.
- Mandatory installations from Oracle
- Group shared space offers easy management and flexibility.
- Consistent response times, faster than the vendor replaced by Oracle.
- Oracle SQL Developer is full featured and intuitive for accessing Exadata.
- The learning curve for syntax (aliasing, dates, etc) is steeper than some database vendors.
- Initially had issues with response times but this was resolved with some configuration changes.
October 29, 2018
EXADATA
- It runs analytical workloads much faster.
- The HCC compression helps to reduce the storage cost and increase storage efficiency
- Ideal platform to consolidate database.
- It's difficult to find the cons.
- Entry cost may be high but if you compare overall cost with performance, then it's not a big factor.
- It does not support legacy database version.
October 23, 2018
You aren't on Exadata? You're killing me smalls!
- Speeds up backup and restore.
- Improved performance for payroll processing
- Platinum support and proactive monitoring of database hardware
- Batch processing performance improvement.
- Platinum support patching has suffered lately in performance of the patching event
- Cost for additional applications such as RAC
- Cost of the hardware and support
November 01, 2017
Performance, scalability, fast, installed: this is Oracle Exadata.
- Oracle Database : Deliver industry-leading security, high availability and scalability with Oracle Database, which has been significantly enhanced to take advantage of the Oracle Exadata Storage Servers.
- Exadata Smart Scan : Improve query performance by offloading intensive query processing and data mining scoring to scalable intelligent storage servers.
- Smart Flash Cache : Transparently cache 'hot' read and write data to fast solid-state storage, improving query response times and throughput. Exadata systems use the latest PCI flash technology rather than flash disks. PCI flash delivers ultra-high performance by placing flash directly on the high speed PCI bus rather than behind slow disk controllers.
- Hybrid Columnar Compression : Reduce the size of data warehousing tables by 10x, and archive tables by 50x, to improve performance and lower storage costs for primary, standby, and backup databases. Query high, query low, archive high and archive low.
- Infiniband Network : Connect multiple Oracle Exadata Database Machines using the InfiniBand fabric to form a larger single system image configuration. Each InfiniBand link provides 40 Gigabits of bandwidth–many times higher than traditional storage or server networks.
- Petabyte Scalability : Easily scale data warehouse to support enterprise data growth.
- There's nothing bad to say about Exadata. It's stable, durable, and always up and running. My DBAs do online patches and online backup.
- I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving. I would like to see additional database memory.
- It could be cheaper. :-)
October 27, 2017
Powerful, but a little clunky at first
- Oracle is able to take a lot of data and put it into concise reports.
- Oracle is super fast, for the amount at data it needs to contain and access at any time.
- It might just be Banner, but the user interface is clunky when you're just getting started to learn it quickly and easily. It would be great if Banner had more customer service help lines as well.
March 20, 2017
Data in Exadata
- Performance
- Cloud Service
- Storage
- Flexibility to make changes without Oracle
March 09, 2017
Exadata - It's more than one could ever expect
- The smart scan and cell offloading churn through massive amounts of data in a far more efficient and timely manner than any other Oracle database platform option available.
- We did not have to change any application code to deploy on Exadata. We never allowed optimizer hints in our application code so we had zero issues when we upgraded.
- We actually were able to consolidate many databases onto a single Exadata box - far more than we had ever expected.
- I wish Exadata costs were just a little lower to overcome new users initial price shock. But once you see it in action the issue disappears.
- I wish the Exadata technology were available on non-Oracle hardware/servers. In theory it should be able to be done on other servers, but it's blocked by Oracle it seems.
- The new Exadata Express in the cloud is misleading, it does not have full smart scan capabilities. So people who try to experiment with Exadata first on the cloud may not see the real benefit and not understand why.