Larry Ellison Announces Oracle Exadata V2

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the launch of Oracle Exadata V2, the first database machine for online transaction procession (OLTP).

The new machine builds on the success of Oracle Exadata V1, which in itself increased performance speeds from 10 to 50 times, according to satisfied users. V2 is twice as fast as V1 for data warehousing, and is the fastest in the world for OLTP.

Speed is of the essence when it comes to the new machine. Its distinguishing feature is Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache, based on Sun FlashFire technology. Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache addresses the random disk I/O bottleneck by transparently moving “hot data” to Sun FlashFire cards. “We can do random I/O very quickly. In fact, a single-rack Sun Oracle Database Machine can do over a million random I/Os in a second,” says Ellison.

Emphasising the ease with which customers can use the new product, Ellison said: “All of the hardware and all of the software is preconfigured. You roll in this box, you load up your data, and you run. You get it in the morning and you’re running by the afternoon with your existing applications unchanged.”

The Sun Oracle Database Machine is available in four models: full rack (8 database servers and 14 Oracle Exadata storage servers), half-rack (4 database servers and 7 storage servers), quarter-rack (2 database servers and 3 storage servers), and a basic system (1 database server and 1 storage server).
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