Voltaire Certified Solutions for Oracle

Voltaire InfiniBand Helps Deliver Extreme Performance for HP Oracle® Database Machine
- Oracle OpenWorld 2008

Voltaire InfiniBand switches and software are helping to drive previously unattainable performance for large Oracle data warehouses. HP Oracle® Database Machine was unveiled Wednesday afternoon at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. See press release here.

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Unleash Oracle Real Application Cluster Performance by Eliminating I/O Bottlenecks

Accelerate Data Warehousing and OLTP Applications

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) deliver a highly scalable, highly available application environment built using clusters of servers. Using Oracle RAC, an enterprise can deploy business applications with improved scalability and at lower costs than alternative database environments. But maximizing Oracle RAC performance requires a high performance cluster interconnect.
By leveraging Voltaire’s InfiniBand-based I/O fabric, Oracle RAC can dramatically accelerate applications. Benchmarks show substantially improved transaction rates and shortened query times for both data warehouse and OLTP applications.

The Secret Sauce for Accelerating Oracle RAC – InfiniBand with Reliable Datagram Sockets

Voltaire solutions use Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) to provide a high bandwidth, low latency, ultra reliable inter-process communication (IPC) protocol that dramatically improves the performance of cluster interconnect intensive applications.

RDS is a socket offload mechanism used by Oracle for IPC communications. It allows the processing of IPC traffic to be offloaded to the I/O hardware. In the future, RDS will support Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) providing even better performance. Currently, Oracle has found RDS to reduce communication latency and CPU utilization by up to 50%. The result is drastically improved application performance and improved scalability.

Leveraging InfiniBand’s built-in high availability and load balancing features, RDS has been rigorously tested by Oracle to meet the most demanding enterprise requirements and with Voltaire’s products having achieved Oracle RAC and Oracle Enterprise Linux certifications, applications running in Oracle RAC environments can achieve extreme levels of database performance and scalability while using fully certified solutions.

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“We are very pleased with the performance and scalability that Voltaire InfiniBand brings to Oracle Real Application Clusters in our large Oracle Database environment. To deliver the best and most reliable service to our customers, our applications demand fast access to data and this solution truly delivers. An important capability this solution provides is the ability to eliminate latency and scale our Oracle Database applications.”
- Jens-Christian Pokolm, Analyst IT Services, Postbank