Exadata: New features and functionality

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Oracle announces Exadata X9M as a hardware and software upgrade that combines persistent memory + RDMA over Converged Ethernet to hit 27.6 million read IOPS and ~19 microsecond read latency for OLTP, plus an analytics pipeline ~>1 TB/s SQL read throughput (87% faster). Features include persistent columnar flash cache, storage-index persistence across maintenance, metadata sharing for high parallelism, Smart Flash Log write-back for higher redo throughput, and RDMA-based multisite redo multicasting for availability.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:38Exadata Vision Extreme Performance and Availability.Lowest Cost Available Everywhere
3. 2:36Exadata Superior Software Architecture Highlights
4. 5:11Thousands of Critical Deployments Since 2008 87% of Fortune Global 100 Run Exadata 44% Run Exadata Cloud
5. 6:25World's Fastest OLTP Database Machine Now Even Faster
6. 8:45Exadata Superior OLTP Architecture - Persistent Memory
7. 10:33World's Fastest Analytics Database Machine
8. 12:08World's Most Cost-Effective Database Machine Now Even More Cost-Effective
9. 13:20Exadata Enables Banks Achieve Their Goals
10. 15:05Exadata Enables Telecoms Achieve Their Goals
11. 16:28Exadata Enables Energy Companies Achieve Their Goals
12. 20:29Persistent Storage Index
13. 22:04Persistent Columnar Cache
14. 23:02Smart Scan Metadata Sharing
15. 24:02ACFS IO Caching in Flash Cache
16. 24:57Smart Scan Fast Decryption
17. 26:58Exadata Secure RDMA Fabric Isolation for RoCE
18. 28:05Smart Flash Log Write-Back
19. 29:17Fast In-Memory Columnar Cache Creation
20. 30:17Cell-to-Cell Rebalance Preserves Persistent Memory
21. 31:07Exadata System Software 20.1: Smarter Management

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