Friday, April 24, 2015

Which Database is the Performer for an Analytic Application – Oracle Exadata?




As you already know, when a product is tied to a database, it is the database that provides features to enhance the performance rather than the product itself. In other words, database of a product plays a vital role when it comes to performance.
Besides, already known capabilities like materialized views, massive parallelism, etc., there are a few new popular techniques like in-memory, columnar processing, compression, and data skipping, which helps the user to find the needed data more quickly. 

Let’s see what its peers are saying about Oracle Exadata:


  • Uses columnar processing; it uses columns to compresses data. However, while handling a query, it decompresses it.
  • Uses flash-cache, which is located on the storage server [not on the database server], for faster processing
  • Uses Smart Scans feature, which is capable of querying historic data rather than real-time data.
  • Uses workload management, which is based on first come, first serve basis; which sometimes results in keeping resources idle.
  • Uses query queuing, which consumes lot of space that in turn hampers performance.
  • Possess no ability to control the Storage Server CPU, which is consumed by a workload; in turn results in difficulty in maintaining SLAs.    
  • Recommends extra hardware to improve performance


 What you suggest?

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