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Exadata Technical Overview - Oracle

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<strong>Exadata</strong> Smart Flash Log<br />

� Accelerate Transaction Response Times Using Flash<br />

Default (on left)<br />

- Choppy Response<br />

- High Outliers<br />

Smart Flash Log<br />

- 3x faster response<br />

- Much lower outliers<br />

Automatic and<br />

Transparent<br />

Copyright © 2012, <strong>Oracle</strong> and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.<br />

� Uses Flash for Database Logs in a clever way<br />

Transaction<br />

Response Times<br />

Smart Flash Log Enabled<br />

– Flash is fast but has slow outliers ‒ Erase cycles, wear leveling, etc<br />

� Smart Flash Log feature transparently uses Flash as a parallel write<br />

cache to disk controller cache<br />

– Whichever write completes first wins (disk or flash)<br />

� Better response time and more throughput<br />

� Uses almost no flash capacity (0.1% of capacity)

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