Oracle Exadata

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.

Exadata specializes in mixed workloads sharing system resources with resource management features for prioritization, such as favoring workloads servicing interactive users over reporting and batch.

Long running requests, characterized by Data Warehouses, reports, batch jobs and Analytics, are reported to run many times faster compared to a conventional, non-Exadata database server.

[6][7] July, 2024 As the platform has been around since 2008, Oracle has published information related to the end-of-support for older Exadata generations.

In Oracle's published document titled Oracle Hardware and Systems Support Policies,[8] they mention "After five years from last ship date, replacement parts may not be available and/or the response times for sending replacement parts may be delayed."