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Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M, the latest generation of the most powerful Oracle Database platform in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Customers may execute existing workloads quicker, with higher scale, and at a lower cost than prior generations with Oracle Autonomous Database Service or Oracle Exadata Database Service running on Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M. Furthermore, organisations can save money by merging hundreds of OTLP, analytics, and mixed database workloads onto a single cloud service when upgrading from X8M to X9M.
Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M offers up to 8,064 database server vCPUs, 2.5 times more than X8M, and up to 3.1 PB of uncompressed database capacity, a 28 per cent increase. Together with 80 per cent faster internal networks, and twice the bandwidth to application server clients, customers can run OLTP workloads with extremely low sub-19 microsecond SQL IO latency and up to 87 per cent more IOPS. Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M on OCI also accelerates analytics workloads in the cloud with 80 per cent faster scan rates of up to 2.88 TB/s.
“Autonomous Database and Exadata Database Service uniquely provide stock exchange-level performance, availability, and security transparently to all apps,” said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Mission-Critical Database Technologies, Oracle. “With Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M, we adopted the latest CPU, networking, and storage hardware, and optimised our software to deliver Oracle’s highest performance, most scalable, and most cost-effective cloud infrastructure for developing and running Oracle Database workloads—all at the same price as the previous generation.”
More OLTP and Analytics Performance and Scale
Customers can process more mission-critical transactions in less time and gain more insights by analysing larger amounts of data faster and with more advanced analytical algorithms, thanks to the high level of performance provided by Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M. In addition, compared to X8M, the ability to combine more workloads on less equipment lowers expenses. Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M provides the following advantages over other cloud databases:
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Sub-19 microsecond IO latency—25 times better than the half-millisecond latency offered by Amazon RDS, and 50 times better than the one millisecond latency offered by Microsoft Azure SQL—directly improves OLTP responsiveness and throughput.
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With 64 storage servers, X9M delivers up to 2880GB/s of aggregate analytics scan throughput—137 times faster than possible with a single Azure SQL (21GB/s) and 384 times faster than Amazon RDS (7.5GB/s) instance.
Continuous Operations for Mission-Critical Databases
Exadata's fault-tolerant hardware and interaction with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) enable infrastructure to be expanded, upgraded, and updated without interruption. When transferring from one pre-defined virtual machine form to another, other cloud databases frequently require downtime. Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M allows you to increase database server consumption while also reducing the number of database servers you use—all without having to migrate databases or take downtime. Enterprises can consolidate mission-critical databases in the cloud without running out of resources with the capacity to use four to 252 vCPUs per database server and two to 32 database servers per system.
Greater Flexibility and Scale for Autonomous Database and Developers
Autonomous Database on OCI allows organisations and developers to use more database and storage resources than was previously available on the X8M system, resulting in improved performance and lower costs. Customers who use Autonomous Database have the option of using the entire Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M configuration set in dedicated Autonomous Database environments. Customers can now employ more vCPUs to run more OLTP queries concurrently and more storage servers to parallelise analytics workloads, achieving up to 38 times the scan performance of X8M. As a result, customers will be able to run database workloads faster, consolidate more of them on less infrastructure, and reduce costs. Additionally, Autonomous Database drives further cost reductions with less administration, consumption-based auto-scaling, and consolidation of up to five databases in one vCPU for lighter workloads such as development, microservices, and small databases.
Customers and Analysts Comment on X9M in OCI
Letsbank is a leading digital bank in Brazil for small and medium-sized businesses. “With Oracle Exadata Database Service, we’ve gained flexibility and the assurance that if there’s abrupt growth or a spike, the bank will support that load,” said Vitor Oliveira, head of Cloud and DevOps, Letsbank. “We’ve also improved performance by 2,000 per cent, as well as security and reliability. We look forward to the advantages that Oracle Exadata Database Service X9M will bring to further enable our expansion and enhance the customer experience.”
Martin Brower is a multi-billion-dollar supply chain company that supports over 25,000 restaurants in 18 countries. “We use Exadata Database Service with Exadata X8M infrastructure to accelerate analysis of our customer data warehouses, allowing us to run reports in a few minutes instead of hours,” said Wayne Gryzbek, vice president of IT, Martin Brower. “Analysing larger amounts of data and doing it faster has helped us become more competitive in the marketplace. We look forward to further accelerating analytics and generating deeper customer insights by using the higher levels of performance and capacity available with Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M.”
“What’s truly exciting about Oracle’s Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M announcement is that they’re the first to deploy in production the power and performance of AMD CPUs with Intel’s persistent memory (PMem) in a single system,” said Marc Staimer, senior analyst, Wikibon. “Oracle tightly integrated 64 core AMD CPUs in its Exadata Cloud Infrastructure database servers, RDMA networking, and the latest Ice Lake Intel CPUs with Intel Optane PMem on storage servers. The result is the highest performing enterprise multi-model cloud database platform available today.”
