Oracle has extended its Exadata Database machine product line with the introduction of Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8, at OpenWorld 2010, in San Francisco.
The X2-8 is a high-capacity system for large OLTP, data warehousing and consolidated workloads. This brings the number of configurations of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine to four.
According to Oracle, customers now have a choice of configurations for managing small to large database deployments. “The X2-8 is secure, fault-tolerant, and offers 50% greater processing capacity. It features two eight-socket database servers with a total of 128 Intel CPU cores and 2TB of memory.”
In addition, it features 14 Exadata Storage Servers with 168 Intel CPU cores and up to 336TB of raw storage capacity, and more than 5TB of Exadata Smart Flash Cache to cache frequently accessed “hot” data for extremely fast transaction response times and high throughput.
Other features include multiple compression tiers to manage more data and reduce I/O requirements of OLTP and data warehousing data, 40Gb InfiniBand internal connectivity and 10Gb Ethernet external connectivity.
The company describes the X2-8 as being the world's most secure database machine. It is able to query fully encrypted databases with near-zero overhead at hundreds of GBs per second, by moving decryption processing from software into the Exadata hardware.
“The machine was designed to provision scalable and reliable database services in a private cloud environment, improve the performance of enterprise OLTP and data warehousing applications with large user populations, and reduce IT costs through consolidation of ERP, CRM, and mixed workloads,” says Oracle.
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