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Exadata Distinctives
• Operating system
• Database software
• Exadata
DATABASE SERVER
INDEXES
MEMORY
DISKS BLOCKS RESULTS USER
CACHE
COMPRESSION
Database Server with SAN
INDEXES
NETWORK
MEMORY MEMORY
DISKS BLOCKS BLOCKS RESULTS USER
CACHE CACHE
COMPRESSION
Exadata with Smart Scan
Cell Storage Server Database Server
INDEXES
NETWORK
MEMORY
DISKS BLOCKS RESULTS USER
CACHE
COMPRESSION
Exadata without Smart Scan
Cell Storage Server Database Server
INDEXES
NETWORK
MEMORY MEMORY
DISKS BLOCKS BLOCKS RESULTS USER
CACHE CACHE
COMPRESSION
Observations about the three server types
• Indexes
• Compression
• memory cache
• Storage server
• Database servers
More observations about the three server types
• Without Smart Scan Exadata works just like DB server with SAN
How to Use Exadata Smart Scan
• Drop indexes
• CELL_OFFLOAD_PROCESSING=FALSE or TRUE
• Like all RAC systems with many nodes moving temp space from
node to node kills performance.
• Newness issues
• Lack of documentation