Oracle Database Machine
The Oracle Database Machine is a preconfigured data warehouse server and storage grid. It consists of 14 Oracle Exadata Storage Servers and 8 Oracle Real Application Cluster servers, in a single rack, complete with switches and power supplies, offering up to 168 TB of storage, with a data scan rate of 14GB/sec.
The Oracle Database Machine has revolutionized data warehousing performance, with customers reporting at least 10x query performance improvements over their existing environments. The hardware cost is also much lower than alternative environments. An Oracle Database Machine has a retail hardware price of around $650,000, whereas an equivalent configuration using high-end SMP and Storage Arrays would cost closer to $8 million dollars, and deliver less performance.
