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Oracle Exadata
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Oracle Exadata (Exadata[1]) is a computing system optimized for running Oracle Databases.
Original author(s) | Oracle Corporation |
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Initial release | October 2008 |
Operating system | Oracle Linux |
Platform | Exadata Database Machine, Exadata Database Service, Exadata Cloud@Customer |
License | Commercial |
Website | www |
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Exadata is a combined hardware and software platform that includes scale-out x86-64 compute and storage servers, RoCE networking, RDMA-addressable memory acceleration, NVMe flash, and specialized software.[2]
Exadata was introduced in 2008 for on-premises deployment, and since October 2015, via the Oracle Cloud as a subscription service, known as the Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure,[3] and Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure.[4] Exadata Cloud@Customer[5] is a hybrid cloud (on-premises) deployment of Exadata Database Service.