Oracle Engineered Systems
Understanding Oracle software licensing on Oracle Exadata, Supercluster, ODA, Exalogics & Exalytics range of engineered systems.
Understanding Oracle software licensing on Oracle Exadata, Supercluster, ODA, Exalogics & Exalytics range of engineered systems.
A Non-Oracle Definition
An engineered system is a composite of people, products, services, information, and processes that provides a capability that satisfies a stated customer need or objective.
What is an Oracle Engineered System?
Oracle Exadata: The solution to an important database problem
The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a database machine that provides extreme performance for both online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and data warehousing systems.
Exadata was designed to address the most common bottleneck with very large databases: the slow speed & sometimes inability to move sufficiently large volumes of data from the disk storage system to the database server. Oracle, in the normal course, does provide intelligent caching technology to solve this problem. But as database sizes have outstripped the caching capabilities, Oracle came up with Exadata.
Exadata solves the problem of moving data faster between the storage and database tier by doing two things simultaneously:
An Exadata Machine is an integrated platform consisting of:
Supercluster
The Oracle Supercluster can be looked at as an integrated system with Exadata features and SPARC-Solaris based servers. It can be used to deploy general purpose applications that run on Solaris and may or may not need the storage cell software.
The supercluster has the following components:
The differences between an Exadata Machine and a Supercluster (in very brief) are:
What is ODA?
Important Licensing Guideline for ODA:
Oracle uses KVM to provide virtualization in the ODA. (Customers also have a choice of OVM in higher-end systems).
Oracle allows ‘capacity-on-demand’ licensing of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition to run the ODA. Customers can start small and purchase licenses as they scale up utilization.