Oracle’s Exadata Cloud Service is getting a major performance boost. The X8M generation of Exadata, first unveiled for on-premises implementations a year ago, is now live on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as well as in Exadata Cloud@Customer and Dedicated Region [email protected] recap, X8M is a major technology shift for Exadata. It introduced persistent memory (PMEM) and made a major architectural change in the internal networking fabric, moving from InfiniBand to Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over 100 Gbs Converged Ethernet. The results are the doubling of transaction processing performance and reduction of latency by an order of magnitude. And with new access through Oracle public and hybrid cloud services, customers have more options when it comes to sizing and elasticity, with maximum capacity for analytics rising to data lake country at 25 PBytes, after compression.
DB Insight Research: Oracle Exadata Cloud Service take elasticity to a new level
