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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Recently our client's Oracle database servers were migrated to Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Due to this migration, downtime has reduced drastically. Previously we had downtime during Oracle patching but now there is no downtime. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is faster. It supports scripting using bash. The computing speed is high. The performance of queries has increased a lot. Our business is running smoothly due to this.
- 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
Exadata is used extensively to support various business intelligence teams. It allows for high speed delivery of data as well as fast replication to other environments. It also allows for a siloed approach for delivering discrete database solutions. As an architected solution, we can quickly realize features and components that will be highly utilized as well as those that will not.
- 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 Exadata Machine is used as a centralized database for ERP applications, and some other inhouse applications. It is used for the whole organization. It helps us increase processing speed and leads to less downtime.
- 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.
Our organization utilizes Oracle Exadata Database Machine as analytical database system. It is primarily used by business analytics and reporting units throughout the organization. As an enterprise grade database appliance with optimized computing platform, it enables users to execute aggregation of huge data faster than using commodity servers. Thus it is a dependable system to generate mission critical reports.
- 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
April 19, 2019
In Expectation of the New Exadata Database
Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the best solution when you need to integrate several databases or you have done some acquisitions. We need to make reports every Wednesday and getting that outlook is a huge amount of data. With Oracle Exadata Database Machine, we could reduce the downtime and accuracy of our database. It is used by everyone in the company and also running our Eloqua BI platforms.
The run is super easy and the performance given is one of the best in the market. Oracle could position the Exadata system as the Rolls Royce, so you could start a lower entry level and then upgrade it as you needed it. It helps us to gain performances and scalability.
The run is super easy and the performance given is one of the best in the market. Oracle could position the Exadata system as the Rolls Royce, so you could start a lower entry level and then upgrade it as you needed it. It helps us to gain performances and scalability.
- 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
It is used throughout the organization as the primary reporting database for patient data. Multiple instances are running, one for each region/state.
- 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 27, 2017
Powerful, but a little clunky at first
I use Oracle Exadata in relation to Banner reports, I can use these reports specifically for budgeting and accounts payable.
- 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 09, 2017
Exadata - It's more than one could ever expect
We used Exadata across the entire organization. We needed a super high-performance database platform for Oracle - and Exadata was exactly what we needed. While the initial cost and learning curve were a bit steep, the performance improvements in all our database applications were nothing short of phenomenal. If we could have afforded to switch over entirely to Exadata we would have had stellar results. For those database applications we did not place on Exadata it was painful to know there's a better platform and way to go. If budget were not an issue we would have done so. It's almost impossible to value the smart scan technology and cell offloading until you see it in practice. The technology delivers on every promise and in general, is far better than one expects.
- 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.