Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M
TheNextPlatform, Friday, January 10th, 2025
Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s.
But transaction processing - counting the money that passes between customers and the companies that serve them - is still the backbone of the economy.
The funny thing is that IBM and Oracle are the two remaining companies that create co-designed hardware/software systems that accelerate the performance of databases while at the same time providing rock-solid reliability and the scalability that the Global 5000 require and that several hundred thousand smaller enterprise customers also value.