Oracle announced it has incorporated the high-performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC persistent memory into its next-generation Exadata platform, Oracle Exadata X8M.
Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud Applications powered by Exadata will now feature 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel Optane DC persistent memory and 100 gigabit RoCE networking.
The partnership will enable Oracle to deliver high-performance database infrastructure solutions to its clients including the world’s leading banks, telecoms and retailers.
The Oracle solution is capable of meeting today’s highly demanding Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), analytics and mixed workload database requirements, as well as database consolidation and in-database machine learning, the company said.
It also supports latency-sensitive activities such as high-frequency stock trading, internet of things (IoT) data processing, real-time fraud and intrusion detection, financial trading and applications requiring real-time human interactions.
Exadata X8M’s implementation of Intel Optane DC persistent memory is unique in the industry, since Exadata uses sophisticated remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology to enable the database to directly access persistent memory deployed in smart shared storage servers, bypassing the entire OS, network, and IO software stack, Oracle said.
With this implementation, Oracle is able to reduce IO latency in Exadata X8M tenfold compared with the previous Exadata release.
Commenting on this partnership, Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Mission-Critical Database Technologies at Oracle, said, “Our collaboration with Intel sets a new industry standard for supporting databases with the highest performance and availability.”
Oracle also announced the availability of its Generation 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer service. Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer is based on Oracle Exadata X8.
