An Exadata X11M rack can have up to 2,880 AMD “Turin” cores and up to 42 TB of memory for database processing or up to 1,088 Turin cores and 21.3 TB of RDMA-addressable memory in the storage servers ...

The end result is that Oracle Database achieves SQL read latencies from shared storage of under 19 microseconds, which is more than ten times faster than traditional flash storage. However ...

Oracle has faced strong competitive pressure from other closed- and open-source relational database products like Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, and PostgreSQL. More recently, the rise of NoSQL ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server and Oracle Database have traditionally competed head-to-head in the database market, and the companies have also become competitors in the cloud in recent years.