Oracle's latest Exadata X11M release focuses on enhancing performance across AI, OLTP, and analytics workloads. This article explores the key innovations, hardware upgrades, and software enhancements that drive these improvements, emphasizing the real-world value delivered to businesses.
Oracle recently launched its Exadata X11M product to the market. Exadata is an integrated hardware and software platform designed from the ground up to optimize Oracle Database workloads. Exadata X11M zeroes in on a few key areas — performance across AI, OLTP and analytics, scale, operational efficiency, and cost. Additionally, Oracle simultaneously announced X11M innovations for public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises deployments.
While these are some major points, it's worth delving into what Oracle did and didn't deliver with this release.Oracle's vast footprint in the enterprise means that it likely handles more enterprise data than any other technology vendor. This is data that drives organizations — the very definition of mission- and business-critical. Because of these dynamics, Oracle introduced Exadata in 2008. Exadata was designed to deliver a tightly integrated platform tuned for performance, scale, and reliability for in-database analytics. Over its thirteen generations of development, Exadata has been enhanced to deliver these capabilities across the spectrum of Oracle Database workloads: AI, analytics, transaction processing, document databases, graph databases, spatial, time series and more.Exadata is a tightly integrated hardware and software platform — truly a database machine. It is designed from the ground up for performance, scale, and reliability. For example, Exadata RDMA memory, also called XRMEM, is a shared read accelerator that uses remote direct memory access to provide incredibly fast access to data cached in storage servers. XRMEM is a prime example of how Oracle has created a bespoke architecture to drive differentiated performance. Oracle has built many such innovations into the Exadata platform since its launch. Furthermore, while Oracle Database will run on virtually any server platform, its performance on Exadata is significantly better, and running workloads faster means they can be run using fewer hardware and database licenses — further increasing efficiency. Examples of Exadata optimizations that help run crucial workloads faster include Exadata Smart Scan, which offloads SQL queries to intelligent storage, and AI Smart Scan, which does the same for AI vector search. While Exadata has evolved over the years, Exadata X11M may be the most significant update since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010 and replaced HP as its server platform. As I mentioned earlier, X11M is about delivering better performance, operational efficiency, and cost. It achieves this through a refreshed hardware platform anchored by dual-socket AMD EPYC servers (with up to 96 cores per CPU) and enhanced system software. Oracle uses these servers together with fast DDR5 memory and PCIe Gen5 flash storage to create high-performance database servers and intelligent storage servers that make Exadata’s unique capabilities possible. By combining Oracle's XRMEM with these EPYC capabilities, the X11M storage servers realize a performance increase of up to 33% compared to the X10M and can scan data stored in flash storage 2.2x faster than before — enabling more value to be delivered from data far faster. Oracle also claims that AI vector searches on database servers (in memory) can achieve results 43% faster than on the X10M. For vector searches executed on storage servers (in Flash), the performance increase is 55%. Further, when looking at how Exadata software leverages hardware, Oracle claims even more incredible results. For customers operationalizing generative AI on larger (private) datasets, more complex vector searches can be run considerably faster due to improvements in storage server data filtering (4.7x increase) and binary vector searches (up to 32x increase). This all adds up to Exadata X11M delivering real-world value for organizations operationalizing AI with their enterprise data.It is difficult to quantify exactly how much the X11M delivers in terms of realized (real-world) gains in performance and cost — which will inevitably be a little different from the benchmark improvements cited above — but it is clear that these gains are significant. And with no change in price from the prior generation, the inherent business value is only more compelling. While AI is the topic every IT pundit likes to discuss, there are other workloads that drive businesses today. One of those is online transaction processing, and this is another area where Oracle has delivered significant improvements with Exadata X11M. Handling OLTP effectively is all about low latency, high throughput, and concurrency — in other words, how many transactions can be committed per second. This requires a database with super-efficient indexing capabilities coupled with optimized queries and supported by an infrastructure that can handle extreme concurrency. However, when performing OLTP at scale, architectural designs of a database residing on servers go out the window due to that extreme concurrency
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