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Oracle Exadata

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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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$2.9032

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$14.5162

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Product Details

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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Oracle Exadata Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Elasticity and Scalability: Users have appreciated the elasticity and scalability provided by Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service, allowing for the consolidation of thousands of databases into one unified solution. This flexibility enables organizations to adapt to changing business needs efficiently.

High-Speed Computing Capabilities: Reviewers have consistently highlighted the high-speed computing capabilities of Exadata, resulting in accelerated processing of analytics workloads. The fast performance contributes to improved productivity and decision-making processes for users.

Operational Efficiency Enhancements: Customers have found that Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service offers zero downtime for Oracle patches, faster I/O compared to non-Exadata solutions, and supports scripting using bash and sh, enhancing operational efficiency across various tasks. These features streamline operations and contribute to a smoother workflow for users.

Lack of Comprehensive Documentation and Whitepapers: Many users have expressed a significant need for more detailed documentation, including whitepapers, to facilitate better understanding and utilization of the software features. The lack of comprehensive resources has hindered some users in fully leveraging the capabilities of the software.

Difficulties in Temporary Tables Implementation: Reviewers have highlighted substantial challenges when implementing temporary tables, recommending improvements in the T-SQL to PL-SQL conversion process for enhanced efficiency. Some users have reported specific instances where this issue has led to delays or errors in their database operations.

Complex Patching Process with Zero Downtime Requirements: Some users have found the patching process overly intricate due to zero downtime demands. They emphasize that simpler configuration options and hardware enhancements are necessary to streamline the overall user experience. The complexity surrounding patching activities under strict uptime requirements has been a significant pain point for multiple users.

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Highly Scalable and Elastic Database Workload Platform: Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 01, 2022
AM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
2 years of experience
  • 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.

Exadata does better than most

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 01, 2021
MS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
7 years of experience
  • RAC/clustered database technology
  • RMAN duplicate and cloning
  • Full sh/bash/ksh support
  • Generally faster i/o throughput versus non-exadata

Specifically engineered platform for running Oracle Database efficiently

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 10, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
3 years of experience
  • 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.

No Alternative Competes

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 18, 2019
JS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
5 years of experience
  • Increased performance of queries without indexes.
  • Maximize usage of Oracle Database licenses.
  • Offload SQL queries to storage.

Thoughts on Exadata

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 17, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
3 years of experience
  • Database compression is excellent.
  • 12 C containers for VM databases.

Oracle Exadata: Best for Analytics and OLTP

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 17, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
3 years of experience
  • 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.

EXADATA

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 29, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
5 years of experience
  • It runs analytical workloads much faster.
  • The HCC compression helps to reduce the storage cost and increase storage efficiency
  • Ideal platform to consolidate database.

You aren't on Exadata? You're killing me smalls!

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 23, 2018
RH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
3 years of experience
  • Speeds up backup and restore.
  • Improved performance for payroll processing
  • Platinum support and proactive monitoring of database hardware
  • Batch processing performance improvement.

Performance, scalability, fast, installed: this is Oracle Exadata.

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 01, 2017
GO
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
6 years of experience
  • 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.

Exadata - It's more than one could ever expect

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 09, 2017
BS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Exadata
4 years of experience
  • 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.
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