Oracle and Intel Collaborate on Optane DC Persistent Memory Performance in Exadata X8M

Intel Corporation and Oracle International Corporation announced that Oracle is incorporating the high performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory into its next-gen Exadata platform, Oracle Exadata X8M.

Exadata powers Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Cloud Applications, and the performance database infrastructure at leading banks, telecoms, and retailers.

Built using 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable processors, Optane DC Persistent Memory, and 100Gb RoCE networking, Exadata X8M is designed to support today’s demanding OLTP, analytics, and mixed workload database requirements, as well as database consolidation and in-database ML. This integration is designed to provide customers with performance for latency-sensitive activities such as high-frequency stock trading, IoT data processing, real-time fraud and intrusion detection, financial trading and applications requiring real-time human interactions.

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“At Intel we’re focused on delivering a platform foundation to enable customers to unleash the value from data. The integration of Intel’s 2nd generation Xeon Scalable processors and Optane DC Persistent Memory across Oracle’s Exadata X8M products is an extension of our long-term partnership to deliver breakthrough solutions for enterprises across the globe,” said Navin Shenoy, EVP and GM, data center group, Intel. “By enabling faster analytics and enhanced response times our customers are experiencing what’s possible with Optane DC Persistent Memory.“

“Our collaboration with Intel sets a new industry standard for supporting databases with the highest performance and availability,” said Juan Loaiza, EVP, mission-critical database technologies, Oracle.”Oracle and Intel have integrated cutting-edge persistent memory technologies into the leading enterprise database machine to deliver real-time access to the most mission-critical data. This transcends the boundaries of conventional shared storage systems and servers that simply cannot keep pace with this level of innovation.“

Optane DC Persistent Memory is an innovation in the memory-storage hierarchy that combines near-DRAM performance with the data persistence of storage. Enabled on 2nd gen Xeon Scalable processors, it enables total memory capacity per platform and faster, byte-addressable access to persistent data than the best-in-class SSD.

Exadata X8M’s implementation of 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. This reduces IO latency in Exadata X8M tenfold compared to the previous Exadata release.

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X8M represents more than ten years of continuous innovations and engineering, and Exadata runs many of the world’s mission-critical applications, including 4 out of 5 of the biggest banks, telecoms, and retailers. Over 77% of the Fortune Global 100 run Exadata. It is the foundation for Oracle Autonomous Database, which uses ML to provide a self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing database service that delivers a more reliable system with security that makes organizations and developers more productive.

The company provides choice and deployment flexibility, enabling customers to use Exadata anywhere-in Oracle Cloud, as the core of the firm’s Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at customer service, and on-premises.

Resources:
Blog: Introducing Exadata X8M: In-Memory Performance with All the Benefits of Shared Storage for both OLTP and Analytics    
Blog: Announcing Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer