Oracle Exadata Course Introduction

Oracle Exadata Database Machine Architecture

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine (Exadata[1]) is a computing platform optimized for running Oracle Databases.Exadata is a combined hardware and software platform that includes scale-out Intel x86-64 compute and storage servers, RoCE or InfiniBand networking, persistent memory (PMEM), NVMe flash, and specialized software

Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a modern architecture featuring scale-out industry-standard database servers, scale-out intelligent storage servers, and an extremely high speed internal RDMA Network Fabric that connects the database and storage servers.

Oracle Exadata Database Machine runs all types of database workloads including Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing, and a consolidation of mixed workloads. Oracle Exadata Database Machine powers and protects the most important databases, and is the ideal foundation for a consolidated database cloud.

Oracle Exadata Database Machine includes all the hardware needed to run Oracle Database. The database servers, storage servers and network are preconfigured, pretuned and pretested by Oracle engineers, eliminating the weeks of effort typically required to deploy a high performance system. Extensive end-to-end testing ensures all components work together and there are no performance bottlenecks or single points of failure that can affect the complete system. Oracle Exadata Database Machine also includes the Oracle Exadata System Software, which runs on both database servers and storage servers. Unique software algorithms in Oracle Exadata System Software implement database intelligence in storage, PCI-based flash, and the RDMA Network Fabric network to deliver higher performance and high capacity at lower costs than other platforms.