Comments on: Unveiling the OLTP Oracle Database Machine & Exadata v2

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By: Christo Kutrovsky

Christo Kutrovsky — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:59:25 +0000

I was reading:

http://structureddata.org/2008/10/24/oracle-exadata-in-response-to-chuck-hollis/

That changed my mind a little bit.

For the amount of political pressure, marketing pressure, opinion pressure, $10 000 per disk as expensive as it is, solve a lot of problems.

Balanced systems out of the box – think of how much money will be saved from endless meetings on choosing the “right” configuration and raid level …

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By: Christo Kutrovsky

Christo Kutrovsky — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:10:24 +0000

How about $$ per record?

Or even better, $$ per online user. Given 10 000 per disk, and on avg 100 IOs per disk, that’s 100$ per PIO per Second.

You get the idea.

That got me thinking … that’s 10 000 for exadata software, per disk.

10 000 $ can buy you 20 additional disks. SO are Exadata’s IOs 20 times better? For OLTP that is…

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By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:49:59 +0000

@Christo: yeah… I planned another post on $$ per disk.

By: Christo Kutrovsky

Christo Kutrovsky — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:08:39 +0000

Ah … finally, Oracle found a way to get money from the size of your database.

I wonder when RAM will come into play ;D

I don’t know about you, but 10K a disk looks rather high to me.

That’s 120K per cell in addition to hardware cost. I wonder why they don’t just bundle it all up.

Just as storage was becoming cheaper and cheaper, suddenly there’s a big price tag attached to it. That is, if you use the database machine.

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Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:33:30 +0000

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By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:00:55 +0000

@Doug: Yes sir. We’ve joined much later than that as most of the beta participants I think.

@Waseem: Now I see where you implied that from. You are reading our blog much more attentive than me it seems. :)

We also didn’t take part in on-site beta camps this time (for a number of boring reasons).

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:56:50 +0000

I remember thinking Pythian weren’t part of 11gR2 beta as well, so was wondering where I got that idea from. I think it might have been Christo’s post here, which seemed to imply you weren’t (at that time, anyway)

http://www.pythian.com/news/1246/oracles-secret-new-feature-educated-guesses

“Oracle has been keeping the new feature a secret. Even the 11gR2 beta program had very few participants to prevent information leaking out. It’s, “Something’s coming, but I am not telling what.””

At which point, Christo started to speculate, which I’m sure he wouldn’t have done if you were part of that beta?

But it was a long time ago, I just remember thinking the same. Maybe it was even memtioned in other posts?