Is Oracle Exalytics Essential For OBIEE?
It should not surprise you if you hear that the point of focus in all the latest Oracle hosted events has been cloud technology. Oracle seems to think that the future of technology and services is in cloud. However, Business Intelligence is a completely different ball game and in that domain, the focus in completely on Exalytics, the in-memory designed system from Oracle. According to the sources, this system was custom-made for Business Intelligence deployments and OBIEE platforms. You can reason out why Exalytics improves BI procedures in your OBIEE training classes, to gain a better understanding of both the OBIEE platform and also Exalytics.
Technical Specifications
Exalytics was made public in February and has managed to generate a lot of interest ever since the concept was coined. The specialty of Exalytics is that it can use the Times Ten database that is in-memory to significantly speed up BI analyses. Although the system has a listed price of $170,000, it certainly does pack a punch. With one terabyte RAM and forty cores processing in tandem, the processing power this system can generate is astounding and you will notice the difference in the times right away.
Improved Memory Caching
Another trademark Exalytics capability is the ability to cache data from multiple resources. While the system can cache metadata for your OBIEE platform, it can also cache the data from Essbase cubes and data warehouses into your system’s memory. Data caching is a very important part of BI protocols and this methodology seems to have made a significant difference.
In fact, one of the partners of the IT giant, Sodex, proclaimed at the Open World that the performance with Essbase Cubes that are running with support from Exalytics can speed up the performance by a factor of 10, when compared with the performance of a conventional Essbase setup. The scale was also very high and these results were obtained with 10,000 users working on the system at the same time.
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