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Oracle Database In-Memory Powers the Real-Time Enterprise
Published Jun 11, 2014
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Oracle announced Oracle Database In-Memory that allows companies to extend their Oracle 12c database to perform transactions and at the same time analyse data and pull reports, all in real-time.
“Oracle Database In-Memory is simple to implement with all applications that work with Oracle database 12c,” explained Hussein Hamza, Oracle’s Gulf leader. “Customers can test it on their existing applications and measure the performance against 12c with the in-memory functionality turned off.”
An innovative, dual-format in-memory architecture delivers fast analytics and efficient online transaction processing without the need for any changes to the applications. In addition, analysis does not require making copies of production data, thus ensuring that the data being analysed is always current.
Oracle Database In-memory dramatically speeds up workloads that are driven by analytics – reporting, ad hoc analysis and the ability to analyse billions of data values within a second.
Oracle Database In-Memory transparently extends the power of Oracle Database 12c to enable organizations to discover business insights in real-time while simultaneously increasing transactional performance.
“This means that information technology can now support companies in real-time not only when it comes to conducting business transactions, but also in business decision-making and analyzing company performance,” explained Hamza. “We’ve been talking for years about a realtime enterprise, and we believe that this is now made possible.”
Oracle Database In-Memory has undergone extensive validation testing by hundreds of end-users, ISV partners, and Oracle Applications teams over the past nine months.
Oracle Database In-Memory is scheduled for general availability within 60 days and can be used with all hardware platforms on which Oracle Database 12c is supported.
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is also announcing that Oracle Database 12c Ready certification will soon include Oracle Database In-Memory.
Oracle Database In-Memory demonstrated from 100x to more than 1000x increased speed for enterprise application modules in performance tests, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s JD Edwards, Oracle’s PeopleSoft, Oracle’s Siebel, and Oracle Fusion Applications.
At a special event at Oracle’s headquarters, CEO Larry Ellison described how the ability to combine real-time data analysis with sub-second transactions on existing applications enables organizations to become Real-Time Enterprises that quickly make data-driven decisions, respond instantly to customer’s demands, and continuously optimize key processes.
What Customers are Saying
“As a consumer Internet pioneer and innovator, Yahoo is always at the leading edge of big data and database technology to deliver a responsive, seamless consumer experience. We joined Oracle’s beta program to understand how memory optimization could sharpen our big data processing,” said Sudhi Vijayakumar, Yahoo’s Principal Oracle Database Architect. “Full support for Oracle Real Application Clusters’ scale-out capabilities means Oracle Database In-Memory can be used even on our largest data warehouses.”
Software and Hardware Engineered for the Real-Time Enterprise
Building on years of innovations and maturity, Oracle Database In-Memory inherits all Oracle Database capabilities including:
> Maximum Availability Architecture to protect against data loss and downtime.
> Industry leading security technologies.
> Scalability to meet any requirement via scale-up on large SMP servers, scale-out across a cluster of servers, and storage-tiering, to cost effectively run databases of any size – whether petabyte-scale data warehouses, big data processing or database clouds.
> Rich programmability: Java, R, Big Data, PHP Python, Node, REST, Ruby, etc.
> Full data type support: relational, objects, XML, text, spatial, and new integrated JSON support.
Oracle Engineered Systems are the ideal complement to Oracle Database In-Memory:
> Oracle Engineered Systems, including Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle SuperCluster, are optimized for Oracle Database In-Memory, featuring large memory capacity, extreme performance, and high availability while tiering less active data to flash and disk to deliver outstanding cost effectiveness.
> In-Memory fault tolerance on Oracle Engineered Systems optionally duplicates in-memory data across nodes enabling queries to instantly use a copy of in-memory data if a server fails. New Direct-to-Wire Infiniband accelerates scale-out for in-memory.
> Oracle’s M6-32 Big Memory Machine is the most powerful scale-up platform for Oracle Database In-Memory providing up to 32 Terabytes of DRAM memory and 3 terabytes/sec of memory bandwidth for maximum in-memory performance.
Supporting Quotes
> “We are delighted that our MicroStrategy Analytics Platform is among the first third-party applications to be certified with Oracle Database In-Memory,” explained Paul Zolfaghari, President, MicroStrategy Incorporated. “Our participation in Oracle's beta program and integration with Oracle Database In-Memory builds on our long-standing relationship with Oracle, underscoring the importance of working together to optimize our platforms to extend the advanced functionality and speed performance improvements to our joint customers.”
>“Oracle is the only vendor in the industry to embrace in-memory computing from applications to middleware to database to systems, enabling businesses to maximize profitability by accelerating operations, quickly discovering new growth opportunities and making smarter, real-time decisions,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, Executive Vice President, Database Server Technologies, Oracle. “Oracle Database 12c In-Memory uniquely delivers unprecedented performance for virtually all workloads with 100 percent application transparency and no data migration. Plus all the high availability, scalability, and security that customers have come to expect from the Oracle Database are fully preserved.”
> “Oracle Applications provide the foundation for our customers’ mission-critical business operations, including sales, financials, supply chain and human resources. By raising the bar on speed, Oracle Database In-Memory enables customers to compound the value of their existing applications by deriving new insights and business opportunities faster,” said Steve Miranda, Executive Vice President of Application Development, Oracle.
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