The Oracle data appliance consists of hardware and software from Oracle Corporation sold as a computer appliance.
It was announced in 2011,and is used for the consolidating and loading unstructured data into Oracle Database software.
[2] The original hardware components of the appliance consisted of a full rack configuration with 864GB of main memory and 432 TB of storage.
A full rack consists of 18 servers nodes each of which had two 6-core Intel processors, 48 GB memory per node (upgradable to 96 GB or 144 GB), 12 x 2TB disks per node, InfiniBand Networking and 10 GbE connectivity.
[3] The product includes an open-source distribution of Apache Hadoop.