Exadata

What Does Exadata Mean?

Exadata is a database machine designed by Oracle that provides users with optimized functionality pertaining to enterprise class databases and their associated workloads. Exadata is a composite database server machine that uses Oracle database software and the hardware server equipment developed by Sun Microsystems.

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Oracle calls Exadata the fastest database server ever built, primarily due to its highly powerful and intelligent database, where query completion time is 10 times faster, even in a huge data warehouse.

Techopedia Explains Exadata

Exadata is a database appliance that has the capability to provide support to a combination of database systems such as OLTP and OLAP, the transactional and analytical database systems. Exadata was initially designed in a collaborative effort between Oracle and HP, in which Oracle powered the Linux-based OS and database software, while HP designed the system’s server hardware. However, after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, Exadata Version 2 came to use Sun Microsystems Storage Systems technology.

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