Exadata Advantages

Feature Advantage Benefit Category

Exadata includes database servers, storage, and internal networking

No need for separate storage and SAN for database. Simple Architecture, just one system to be managed, as against individual servers, storage and SAN

Lower hardware acquisition cost and lower hardware management cost.

Commercial

Smart scan queries offloaded to Exadata storage cells

Intelligent Storage, resulting in better performance

Reduction in required number of database cores, hence savings on license acquisition cost

Technical and Commercial

Over 5TB of Flash (in full rack). Accelerates random I/O upto 30x, and doubles data scan.

Smart Flash cache, resulting in better performance

Eliminates need of (enterprise class) high performing storage, hence saving on hardware acquisition cost.

Technical and Commercial

Hybrid Columnar Compression

Reduction in storage requirement

Savings on storage acquisition cost

Commercial

In case of DB consolidation, I/O Resource Management as per the requirement

Use resources as per requirement

Flexibility, as compared to silo’d DB instances

Technical

All database instances consolidated to single Exadata, as compared to separate servers for each database instance.

Consolidated DB tier. Lesser number of servers on database tier.

Ease of management, resulting in lower maintenance cost. Better utilization, resulting in software license savings.

Commercial and Technical

Exadata can scale up to 8 racks in a single system

Much more scalable as compared to individual servers in traditional approach

Ready to scale as requirement grows

Technical

High-Availability built into the system

Highly Available/Fault Tolerant

HA features of mission critical systems in lower cost

Technical and Commercial

Server, storage, networking, software is pre-engineered, pre-tested in the factory, delivered ready to run.

Faster deployment time. Ease of deployment.

Lower time in deployment. Lower implementation cost.

Technical and Commercial

Active Data Guard/Data Guard used for replication.

For DR/BCP, replication can be done directly between the two Exadata machines on Primary and DR site

No need for separate storage replication licenses

Commercial

Infiniband (40Gbps) internal connectivity.

Faster connectivity, less time required for backup.

Shorter backup window Technical