With up to 95 percent reduction in
infrastructure costs, organizations of any size can now
benefit from using Oracle Exadata
New service unites the best of Exadata's
database intelligent architecture and cloud elasticity to
deliver extreme performance for AI, analytics, and
mission-critical workloads at any scale
AUSTIN,
Texas, July 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today
announced the general availability of Exadata Exascale, an
intelligent data architecture for the cloud that provides extreme
performance for all Oracle Database workloads—including AI vector
processing, analytics, and transactions—at any scale. Exadata
Exascale dramatically reduces costs for organizations of any size
to take advantage of Oracle Exadata's unique built-in
performance, reliability, availability, and security
capabilities. Exadata Exascale is now available with the
Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure and Oracle
Database 23ai on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It will be
available in Exadata Cloud@Customer, OCI Dedicated Region, and
multicloud environments in the future.
"Exadata Exascale is Exadata reimagined for a multi-tenant,
hyper-elastic cloud and is the future architecture for all Oracle
Database cloud services," said Kothanda
Umamageswaran, senior vice president, Exadata and Scale-Out
Technologies, Oracle. "By reducing infrastructure costs by up to 95
percent, Exadata Exascale makes it possible for small workloads and
small businesses to leverage the benefits of Oracle Exadata for
Oracle Databases in the cloud."
Exadata Exascale is a new way for customers to use Exadata Cloud
Infrastructure. It provides users with an intelligent data
architecture that consists of virtualized database-optimized
infrastructure on pools of shared compute and storage, which
enables hyper-elastic scaling and pay-per-use economics. As a
result, organizations of any size can utilize the industry-leading
Exadata database platform to accelerate innovation for all data
workloads starting at hundreds of dollars per month.
"Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure is the most
flexible database environment we have ever worked with," said Luis
Mediero, director, Cloud and Data Solutions, Quistor.
"Its ability to scale efficiently will allow us to
move all workloads to high-performance environments with
minimal migration time. Because it leverages Exadata technology, we
also have confidence in our data resiliency and security,
something that has proven difficult to achieve in other
environments. In addition, Exascale's scalability will
enable us to grow resources quickly and with
minimal costs as our business expands."
With Exadata Exascale, customers benefit from a unique and
intelligent data architecture that provides:
- Elastic, pay-per-use resources: With Exascale, resources
are completely elastic and pay-per-use, with no extra charge for
IOPS. Users only specify the number of database server ECPUs and
storage capacity they need, and every database is spread across
pooled storage servers for high performance and availability,
eliminating the need to provision dedicated database and storage
servers. This reduces the cost of entry-level infrastructure for
Exadata Database Service by up to 95 percent and enables flexible
and granular on-line scaling of resources.
- Intelligent storage cloud: With Exascale, Oracle
delivers the world's only RDMA-capable storage cloud. This
intelligent storage cloud distributes databases across all
available storage servers and uses data aware, intelligent Smart
Scan to make thousands of CPU cores available to speed up any
database query. In addition, data is replicated on three different
storage servers to provide high levels of fault tolerance. Exascale
Storage Cloud intelligently moves hot or frequently accessed data
from disk to memory or flash, and delivers the performance of DRAM,
the IOPs of flash, and the capacity of disks.
- Intelligent AI: Exascale uses AI Smart Scan, a unique
way to offload data and compute-intensive AI Vector Search
operations to the Exascale intelligent storage cloud. AI Smart Scan
and Exadata System Software 24ai run key vector search operations
up to 30X faster enabling customers to run thousands of concurrent
AI vector searches in multi-user environments.
- Intelligent OLTP: Intelligent communication between
servers enables high-performance database scaling across the
Exascale Virtual Machine clusters, and intelligent, low-latency
OLTP IO quickly completes mission-critical transactions and
supports more concurrent users. Exadata Exascale delivers 230X more
throughput than other database cloud services—2,880 GB/s compared
to up to 21 GB/s for other hyperscalers. It also delivers 50X lower
latency, with 17 microseconds compared to 1,000 microseconds for
other cloud providers.
- Intelligent analytics: Unique data intelligence
automatically offloads data-intensive SQL queries to the Exascale
intelligent storage cloud, enabling extreme throughput scaling for
analytics. Automatic columnarization converts data into an
ultra-fast in-memory columnar format that automatically uses flash
caches in the Exascale intelligent storage cloud to increase
capability and performance.
- Database-aware intelligent clones: Users can instantly
create full copies or thin clones using the Exascale intelligent
storage cloud and its redirect-on-write technology. Advanced
snapshot capabilities make creating space-efficient clones of
pluggable or container databases easy using read-write sources.
These development, test, or recovery copies are immediately
available and have the same native Exadata performance and scale as
the source databases.
"The emphasis on data to drive enterprise success, especially in
the age of AI, and broad-based movement of enterprise data to the
public cloud suggest that there is an excellent opportunity, even a
mandate, for a data infrastructure approach that takes maximum
advantage of the dynamism and flexibility that the public cloud
platform represents. This suggests a novel data architecture
designed specifically for the cloud," said Carl Olofson, research vice president, Data
Management Software, IDC. "Oracle has stepped up with Exadata
Exascale. Oracle, of course, has well-established credibility in
the database realm and a proven ability to execute on database
demands and opportunities. Its long-time mission-critical database
system, Exadata's high-performance, and the flexibility of Oracle's
gen 2 cloud infrastructure have enabled Oracle to deliver a
comprehensive, intelligent data architecture that combines Exadata
and cloud benefits with pay-per-use, a near-infinite resource pool,
and hyper-elasticity affordable for any size organization. With
Exascale, Oracle has put forth the challenge. Who will
respond?"
Additional Resources
- Watch Kothanda Umamageswaran and
Jia Shi announce Exadata
Exascale
- Read the Exadata Exascale announcement blog
- Read what industry analysts are saying about Exadata
Exascale
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