Database and Exadata

Sun Oracle Database Machine
The Sun Oracle Database Machine provides an optimal solution for all database workloads, ranging from scan-intensive data warehouse applications to highly concurrent OLTP applications. With its combination of smart Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software, complete and intelligent Oracle Database software, and the latest industry standard hardware components from Sun, the Database Machine delivers extreme performance in a highly-available, highly-secure environment. With Oracle's unique clustering and workload management capabilities, the Database Machine is also well-suited for consolidating multiple databases onto a single grid. Delivered as a complete pre-optimized and pre-configured package of software, servers, and storage, the Sun Oracle Database Machine is simple and fast to implement and ready to tackle your large-scale business applications.

Database Machine Benefits

• Best Data Warehouse platform: Accelerate data warehouse query performance by at least a factor of 10x, and run more queries concurrently for faster access to business-critical information.
• Best OLTP platform: Scale to 10x more concurrent users on a highly available and cost effective platform.
• Best Consolidation platform: Replace isolated special-purpose system with a consolidated platform delivering leading performance and scalability for all database applications.

Database Machine Models
There are four models of the Database Machine - Database Machine Full Rack, Database Machine Half Rack, Database Machine Quarter Rack, and Database Machine Basic System - are offered. Depending on the size and purpose of the database to be deployed, and the processing and I/O bandwidth required there is a system available to meet any need. Each Database Machine runs the same software, is upgradeable and includes common hardware components. Common to all Database Machines are: Exadata Storage Servers, either SAS or SATA.
Industry standard Oracle Database 11g database servers with: two Intel Xeon dual-socket quad-core E5540 processors running at 2.53 Ghz processors, 72 GB RAM, four 146 GB SAS drives, dual port InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA), four 1 Gb/second Ethernet ports, and dual-redundant, hot-swappable power supplies.
Sun Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand switches and cables to form a 40 Gb/second InfiniBand fabric for database server to Exadata storage server communication and RAC internode communication.
The ratio of components to each other, and other hardware included, has been chosen to maximize performance and ensure system resiliency.

Database Machine Facts
A single Database Machine can:

• Scan user data at speeds up to 500GB/sec (when scanning compressed data)
• Provide up to 1 million I/O's per second (IOPS)
• Load data at 5TB/hr
• Store up to 140TB of user data (when compressed)