Re: oracle 12c memory option

On Friday, October 18, 2013 8:58:04 PM UTC-7, Mladen Gogala wrote:

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> Well, that was my understanding of the things: dual columnar and classic
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> storage. Although, I must say that I don't see what role could columnar
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> storage play in OLTP. I also don't see what Exadata can do for an OLTP
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> database. Columnar storage usually helps with things like group by, MODEL
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> clause and constructing cubes.

All true, given the assumption that reporting and/or analyzing are done on a separate db from the OLTP. Often a bad assumption, especially with packaged [E|M]RP's. Ancillary machines are often added as a response to performance problems, and nowadays consolidation can complicate matters.
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> > which is what Oracle is claiming as their unique selling point.
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> Yeah, that remains to be seen. I am not quite convinced. IBM is getting
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> very aggressive, at least on the high end Unix systems. Oracle has pushed
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> HP Itanium users into IBM hands with their antics. IBM is not doing such
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> a swell job on Linux and Windows, though. It's hard to predict this one,
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> the "big data" stuff usually runs on the high end machines and that's the
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> domain that IBM rules supreme.
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Sales is where da money is.

jg

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