Oracle Exadata: The World‘s Fastest Database Machine
Daniela Milanova
Oracle Sales Consultant
10th of November
Sheraton Hotel,
Sofia
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Oracle Exadata Database Machine One architecture for …
• Data Warehousing
• OLTP
• Database Consolidation
Exadata is Oracle‘s strategic database platform for ALL Oracle Database
workloads
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Exadata Delivers Extreme Performance Greater than 10x improvements are common
“With our migration to Exadata V2
we've seen a 17x performance
improvement, having made no changes
to our application.”
— JIM DUFFY, BNP Paribas
“Our reports are running a computed
average of 10x faster, using Oracle
Exadata Database Machine.”
— DOUG MILLER, RL Polk
Customers report astounding performance with NO changes to their
applications
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Exadata Hardware Architecture Pre-integrated, optimized Oracle Database platform
• Database Pool
– Intel-based database servers
– Oracle Linux or Solaris 11
– 10 Gig Ethernet (to data center)
• Storage Pool
– Intel-based storage servers
– Up to 336 terabytes raw disk
– 5.3 terabytes Flash storage
• InfiniBand Network
– Internal high-bandwidth connectivity
A complete system – compute, storage and network; pre-configured,
balanced and optimized.
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Exadata Software Architecture Intelligent storage, standard Oracle Database
• Database Pool
– Oracle Database 11g
– Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters)
• Storage Pool
– Intelligent storage
– Hybrid Columnar Compression
– Smart Flash Cache
Storage software innovations uniquely deliver extreme performance
and storage efficiency
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Select sum(sales) where salesdate= ’17-Nov-2010’…
Sum
Return entire Sales table
What Were Yesterday‘s
Sales?
Discard most of
sales table
Traditional Query Problem
• Data is pushed to database server for processing
• I/O rates are limited by speed and number of disk drives
• Network bandwidth limits performance and concurrency
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Select sum(sales) where salesdate= ’17-Nov-2010’…
Sum
Filter Sales for Nov 17 2010
What Were Yesterday‘s
Sales?
Exadata Smart Scans Improve data warehouse performance by at least 10x
• Data intensive processing runs in Storage Servers
• Rows and columns filtered as data streams from disk
• Parallelize query execution and remove bottlenecks
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Oracle Exadata for Data Warehousing
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JIM DUFFY
SENIOR DATWAREHOUSE ARCHITECT
BNP Paribas
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Oracle Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression
• Data stored by column and then compressed
• Query mode for data warehousing tables
– Typical 10X compression ratios
• Archival mode for old data
– Typical 15- 50X compression ratios
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Exadata Delivers Extreme Data Capacity Greater than 10x data compression is common
Exadata 10x compression
Teradata 2650 1.4x compression
Netezza TwinFin 2-4x compression
EMC VMAX 3x (Oracle) compression
Competitors require multiple racks of storage
to equal 1 rack of Exadata storage*
* Using largest disks and best
compression for each vendor
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Best Data Warehouse Machine Consolidating data and analytics
Data Mining
Integrated ETL Online Analytics
Industry Data Models
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Best OLTP Machine Runs all enterprise applications
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle Peoplesoft
• Oracle Siebel
• SAP applications
• 3rd party ISV applications
• In-house developed applications
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Infrequently Used Data
Frequently Used Data
Exadata Smart Flash Cache Extreme performance for OLTP applications
• Frequently-accessed ‗hot‘ data cached in flash storage
• Process data at 50Gb/second
– Compressed data up to 500Gb/second
• Up to 1.5 million I/Os per second
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Oracle Exadata for OLTP
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Exadata Delivers Extreme Consolidation Create a ―Database-as-a-Service‖ platform
• Large Memory
– Many databases can be consolidated
• Extreme Performance
– OLTP, DW, data mining, batch, reporting, loading,
backups, files in the database
– Encryption, compression
• Workload Isolation
– Manage SLAs via Quality of Service (QoS)
– CPU and I/O resource management
– Instance caging
Shrink data center costs, increase system utilization and promote
application integration
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Standardized and Simple to Deploy Eliminate systems integration trial-and-error
• No Unique Configurations
– Same as Oracle engineering
– Delivered tested and ready-to-run
– Highly optimized, top-to-bottom
– Highly supportable
• Existing Apps, Tools, Practices
– Oracle Database 11g
– Full 30 years of Oracle Database capabilities
– No Exadata certification required
– Skills, knowledge base, people, partners
Deploy in Days, Not Months
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Faster Deployment with Lower Risk Build your own system vs. Exadata
Build From Scratch with Components
Reference Configurations
Take delivery of Oracle Database Machine
Weeks to Months
Pre-implementation
System sizing
Acquisition of
components
Installation and
configuration
Acquisition of
components
Installation and
configuration
Testing and
Validation
Testing and
Validation
Weeks to Months
Oracle Exadata Database Machine
Database pre-configured
Faster deployment
Lower Risk
< 1 Week after Delivery
Testing and Validation
Configuration
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Maximum Availability Architecture Protect from planned and unplanned downtime
• Protection from unplanned failures
– Server failures
– Storage failures
– Network failures
– Site failures
• Protect from planned downtime
– Human error correction
– Online indexing and table redefinition
– Online patching and upgrades
• Remote standby open for queries
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Oracle Database Security Defense in depth
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Monitoring
Access Control
Encryption & Masking
Blocking & Logging
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Most Secure Database Machine
• Move decryption from software to hardware
– Over 5x faster
– Queries decrypt data at 00’s of Gigabytes/second
– No trade-off between performance & security
• Unique to Oracle Exadata
– Encypt columns to entire databases
– DB2, Teradata & Netezza do not have database
managed encryption
– Must write into every application module
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Complete Family Of Database Machines From quarter-rack to multi-rack configurations
Oracle Exadata X2-2 2 to 8 (12 core) database nodes
Oracle Exadata X2-8 2 (64 core) database nodes
Quarter Half
Full, Multi-Rack
Full-Rack
Multi-Rack Exadata models and configurations
span the full range of enterprise database deployments
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Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack Cost-effective, scalable storage for Big Data
• Pre-built storage rack for Oracle Exadata Database Machine
• For applications that need more space but not more compute
– On-disk backups (27 TB/hour)
– Historical or archive data
– File data, LOBs, XML data, documents
– Images, and other large unstructured data
• Available in three configurations
• Full Rack (18 storage servers with 432 TB of disk)
• Half Rack (9 storage servers with 216 TB of disk)
• Quarter Rack (4 storage servers with 96 TB of disk)
• Attractive pricing ( ~ $7,000 per TB)
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How Exadata Delivers Value Up-sell, cross-sell, personalize
Time Savings Lower Capital
Costs
Lower
Operating Costs
Increased
Revenue
On Initial
Acquisition
• Major
price/performance
and price/storage
advantages
Installation to
Go-Live
• Eliminates months
of custom
configuration trial-
and-error
In Production
• End users slash
time to iterate,
analyze and refine
• Support calls go to
one vendor, one
number
• Defers storage
growth, due to 10x
compression
• Configurations
easily upgraded or
expanded
• Consolidated
administration
• Faster loads /
backups / batch
jobs, etc.
• Lower data center
costs
(consolidation)
• Real-time
personalization
• Improved
response times,
enhanced services
• Faster
identification of
actionable
opportunities
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Exadata Delivers Extreme Value 1/6 the price versus IBM‘s latest
$18,860,000
2 Exadata X2-8
$3,000,000
• More CPU cores
• More I/O performance
• Same storage capacity
– (excludes compression)
• HA configuration
IBM P795 + 4 DS8700s w/ Flash
6:1 advantage*
* Hardware list price comparisons
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Exadata Outperforms HP Superdome for Less 1/9 the price versus HP‘s latest
$9,420,000
1 Exadata X2-2
$1,000,000
• More CPU performance
• More I/O performance
• More storage capacity
– (excludes compression)
• HA configuration
HP Superdome 2 + XP24000 w/ Flash
9:1 advantage*
* Hardware list price comparisons
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Turkcell: 10x Compression, 10x Speedup 250 TB warehouse compresses to 25 TB
1 Exadata rack
25 TB compressed data
• 50,000 Reports run 10x faster
each month (avg 27 min to 3 min)
• 1.5 Billion records (2-3 TB raw)
loaded daily (data doubles yearly)
• Redundancy/HA built-in
10 storage racks 1 large SMP server
250 TB raw data
10:1 advantage
Hitachi USP-V
5 Racks
EMC DMX-4
5 Racks
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Softbank Replaces 36 Teradata Racks 3 Exadata racks up to 8x faster
3 Exadata racks
150% more data capacity
• Billions of CDRs processed in 7
hours (from 25 with Teradata)
• Power, cooling, space savings
• Maintenance charges slashed
36 total racks
Twice the operational cost of Exadata
12:1 advantage
DBA
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Exadata Changes the Equation A major leap in performance, capacity and value
Perform database queries 10x faster
Consume 10x less storage
Consolidate platforms, databases, power, cooling, administration
Run existing applications unchanged
Apply existing personnel, skills, Oracle licenses
Eliminate systems integration trial-and-error
“Exadata is the fastest growing product in Oracle’s history”
Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO
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Oracle Exadata Start-Up Pack Integrated suite of services
• Planning – Assessments and
recommendations, incorporating Oracle best
practices, leveraged throughout the
deployment
• Production Readiness – Technical reviews
with engineers, project management, and
expert guidance
• Installation – Proven, standardized
system installation and configuration
• Patch Deployment – Proactive, quarterly
patch deployment
Benefits
• Maximize the value of your Oracle Exadata investment
• Accelerate adoption/return on investment
• Ensure operational readiness
• Reduce deployment and ongoing production
support risk
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