Provides next-generation flash performance, high-capacity storage, and real-time online transaction processing

Oracle (www.oracle.com/kr) announced the release of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine X6, which provides innovative performance, capacity, and availability at no additional cost.

Oracle Exadata continues to lead the industry with innovative technology that delivers exceptional performance, the best value for money in online transaction processing, analytics, and integrated database workloads.

Oracle Exadata X6 consists of the latest and fastest Intel Xeon processors, ultra-fast InfiniBand Networking, scale-out Oracle Exadata Storage Servers combined with all-flash or disk-plus-flash storage, and Oracle Exadata's exclusive Storage Server Software. Oracle Exadata, first launched in 2008, redefined the integration of hardware, software, and the cloud and achieved numerous innovative results unmatched by other database, system, or cloud vendors.

"Because Oracle Exadata Machines enable enterprises to significantly improve online transaction processing and implement greatly enhanced analytics and mixed workloads, four out of five of the world's largest banks, telecommunications companies, and retailers have adopted and are using the system," said Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President of Oracle Systems Technology. "The newly released Oracle Exadata X6 provides much faster and more reliable online transaction processing based on flash performance comparable to DRAM. Furthermore, Oracle Exadata technology is available through cloud services, allowing users to leverage the world's most effective database cloud services."

Provides memory-class performance with shared flash

Oracle Exadata X6 is the first and only database platform to combine 3D V-NAND flash with in-storage database intelligence, and provides throughput comparable to DRAM through Shared Flash. An average data throughput of over 300 gigabytes per second per rack is achieved in the shared flash memory, which is more than 10 times faster than other companies' all-flash storage arrays. Through this, Oracle Exadata X6 can achieve in-memory performance at one-tenth the cost of an in-memory platform.

Oracle Exadata X6 features state-of-the-art helium-filled 8-terabyte (TB) disks, providing over 1.3 petabytes (PB) of disk capacity per rack, and offers enhanced flash performance along with disk capacity economy through integrated intelligent flash caching.

Extreme Flash, featured in Oracle Exadata X6, provides state-of-the-art NVMe flash with over 358TB of storage space per rack. The flash memory capacity of Oracle Exadata X6 is larger than the maximum capacity of other all-flash array products currently on the market, and flash can be expanded to over 6PB through multi-rack configurations.

Oracle Exadata's industry-leading Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) technology increases storage capacity by an average of 10 times and supports large-scale data warehouses and integrated database workloads that are affordable relative to high capacity.

24/7 real-time online transaction processing

Oracle Exadata X6 supports online transaction processing of all scales. Existing online transaction processing was subject to many limitations due to random I/O bottlenecks. However, Oracle Exadata X6 provides an average of over 5.6 million I/O operations per second per rack, easily outperforming the performance of other companies' all-flash storage.

Another bottleneck and performance-degrading factor in online transaction processing is server coordination between nodes. The new Oracle Exadata improves online transaction processing messaging speeds by up to three times through the operation of InfiniBand-based algorithms, including the Direct-to-Wire protocol and Smart Fusion Block Transfer.

Online transaction processing is always supported through Oracle Exadata's unique full-stack integration, enabling immediate fault detection, sub-second redirection of I/O related to failed equipment, and rapid troubleshooting. Additionally, Oracle Exadata's unique database memory failure response provides an additional layer of protection for mixed workloads that are most susceptible to performance impacts.

Oracle Exadata database machines are primarily used in database consolidation and mixed workload applications. To eliminate impediments to online transaction processing workloads, Oracle Exadata prioritizes the execution of only critical workloads from the CPU to the network and storage from an end-to-end perspective.

In addition to deploying Oracle Exadata X6 on-site, Oracle supports it through the Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service. The Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service is deployed and managed by Oracle experts and offers all the same features and options provided by Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. This service is available on a usage-based or subscription-based licensing basis.

In addition, Oracle recently announced Oracle Cloud at Customer, helping customers operate Oracle Cloud services within its own data centers. Oracle Cloud at Customer Service plans to provide all Oracle database cloud services, including Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Service.