HP Oracle Exadata Storage Servers 10x Faster Than Existing Data Warehouses
Oracle has announced its first ever hardware venture, and it’s generating a lot of buzz with promises of unbelievable data query performance, from 10x to 50x today’s data warehouse standards. As Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said today at the OpenWorld Conference, “For the first time, customers can get smart performance storage designed for Oracle data warehouses, that is ten times faster.”
Exadata is a combination of Oracle software and HP hardware, but it’s got Oracle’s name all over it. This move by Oracle is similar to what Apple does: produce their own intertwined hardware and software packages and make the argument that the two go best together, not unlike iPod and iTunes.
The Exadata is available right now, running on Linux with Intel processors. It has been extensively tested over the last year with partners like Google, and took about three years to fully complete.
Oracle specifically is taking on the problem of slow query rates when large amounts of data has to be moved off discs to database servers. At one terabyte, there is a noticeable slowdown, but at ten terabytes, it’s barely functional.
The HP Oracle Database Machine, which will be rolled out pre-configured and optimized for customers that don’t want to deal with setting it up themselves, comes with 64 Intel processor cores and a grid of 14 Exadata Storage Servers that can each hold 12 terabytes, giving it a grand total storage of 168TB.
We don’t do a lot of hardware news here, but hearing that Oracle is developing their own hardware and that it’s ridiculously fast is pretty fascinating.
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