Key Oracle Exadata Features

Oracle Exadata is a high-performance database machine that combines the power of Oracle Database software with the speed and scalability of industry-standard x86 servers, InfiniBand networking, and intelligent storage software. It is designed to deliver unprecedented performance and scalability for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads.

Some of the important features of Oracle Exadata that makes it a powerful and efficient database solution are:

1. Intelligent Storage: Oracle Exadata’s intelligent storage software automatically manages data placement and movement, ensuring that the right data is stored in the right place at the right time. It also provides advanced compression, encryption, and backup capabilities, making it easy to manage large amounts of data.
2. Hybrid Columnar Compression: Oracle Exadata’s hybrid columnar compression feature enables efficient storage of large amounts of data by compressing it at the column level. This reduces the storage space required and improves query performance.
3. Smart Flash Cache: Oracle Exadata’s smart flash cache feature uses flash storage to cache frequently accessed data, improving the performance of read-intensive workloads.
4. Oracle Database In-Memory: Oracle Exadata’s in-memory feature enables the Oracle Database to store and process large amounts of data in memory, improving query performance and reducing response times.
5. Smart Scan: Oracle Exadata’s smart scan feature enables the database to perform processing and filtering of data at the storage layer, reducing the amount of data that needs to be transferred over the network and improving query performance.
6. Exadata Storage Server: The Exadata Storage Server is a high-performance storage server that is optimized for Oracle databases. It is designed to handle large amounts of data and provide fast data access, making it ideal for data warehousing and OLTP workloads.
7. Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Oracle Exadata’s Automatic Storage Management feature simplifies storage management by automatically managing the placement and movement of data. This makes it easy to add storage capacity and ensures that the right data is stored in the right place.
8. Grid Infrastructure: Oracle Exadata’s grid infrastructure feature enables the Oracle Database to be deployed on a cluster of servers, providing high availability and scalability. This makes it easy to add capacity and ensures that the database remains available in the event of a server failure.

Oracle Exadata is a powerful and efficient database solution that delivers unprecedented performance and scalability for both data warehousing and OLTP workloads.

The intelligent storage, hybrid columnar compression, smart flash cache, Oracle Database In-Memory, smart scan, Exadata Storage Server, Automatic Storage Management, and grid infrastructure features make Oracle Exadata a highly desirable solution for organizations looking to manage large amounts of data.

Having used both on-prem and OCI ExaCS versions for multiple clients and bigger EBS/ERP applications, I can say that we definitely got a lot of performance improvements by moving to EXA machines.

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Brijesh Gogia

I’m an experienced Cloud/Oracle Applications/DBA Architect with more than 15 years of full-time DBA/Architect experience. I have gained wide knowledge on Oracle and Non-Oracle software stack running on-prem and on Cloud and have worked on several big projects for multi-national companies. I enjoy working with leading-edge technology and have a passion for Cloud architecture, automation, database performance, and stability. Thankfully my work allows me time for researching new technologies (and to write about them).

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