11.10.2019

Exadata X8M - World's Fastest Database Machine

Exadata X8M has launched during OOW 2019, and termed as world's fastest Database Machine. Let's walkthrough about new additions that has made X8M as world's fastest Database Machine.

An Exadata X8M is the industry's first DB machine integrated with Intel Optane DC persistent memory (read more about this) and 100 gigabit RDMA over converged ethernet. This will be dramatically improves the performance for all sort of workloads, such as OLTP, analytics, IoT, high frequency trading etc by eliminating the storage access bottlenecks. Persistent memory with RoCE networking can reduces IO latency significantly and boosts the performance by 2.5X.

It uses RDMA directly from the DB to access persistent memory in smart storage servers, eliminating the entire OS, IO and network software stacks. Which will deliver the higher throughput with lower latency. Also, frees CPU resources on storage server to execute more smart scan queries for analytic workloads.

Its in-memory performance with all advantages of shared storage benefits the Analytics and OLTP  workloads. Direct database access to shared persistent memory accelerates is the real game changer for application that demands large amounts of data.

For more details, read the link below:

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/oow19-oracle-unleashes-worlds-fastest-database-machine-091619.html