For Mission Critical Oracle Database, Conventional Solution or Oracle "Engineered System"?

 Some marketing numbers have been misleading the industry for almost 10 years since the first release of Oracle Exadata in 2008.

A large bank customer was looking for high performance Oracle database solutions to upgrade their current production environments in multiple locations. They had tested Oracle "Engineered System" Exadata, and then came to us for a PoC in early July this year. We proved to the customer that a small system configuration of G1500 with 32 x 7TB high-density Flash Module Drives, two small half width CB2500 520H B4 blades and two PCIe expansion blades can far exceed their performance criteria and meet the budget requirement.

   By comparing results, according to the customer, the large single instance Oracle database running on our PoC environment outperformed the Oracle Exadata system by 41% with OLAP workloads.

   For OLTP workloads, the Hitachi solution achieved significant better results than Oracle Exadata X6-2's.

Peakmarks results for Oracle Exadata X6-2 listed above can be found here.

   We got a feedback from a vendor of commercial performance benchmarking product when we're preparing and testing Oracle solution with the small VSP G1500 - "If you really loaded 2 x 8 TByte in less than 90 minutes, you are using an extreme fast system. I have never seen such a load rate before!".  The vendor started to believe the fact when we shared event logs and performance test results. 

For more information for Hitachi UCP for Oracle RAC with G1500 and two half width blades, please visit blog post.