Oracle Promises 100x Faster DB Queries With New In-Memory Option

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 22, 2013 @10:00PM from the now-report-back-on-the-double dept.

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "ZDNet reports that Oracle's Larry Elison kicked off Oracle OpenWorld 2013 promising a 100x speed-up querying OTLP database or data warehouse batches by means of a 'dual format' for both row and column in-memory formats for the same data and table. Using Oracle's 'dual-format in-memory database' option, every transaction is recorded in row format simultaneously with writing the same data into a columnar database. 'This is pure in-memory columnar technology,' said Ellison, explaining that means no logging and very little overhead on data changes while the CPU core scans local in-memory columns. Ellison followed up with the introduction of Oracle's new M6-32 'Big Memory Machine,' touted to be the fastest in-memory machine in the world, hosting 32 terabytes of DRAM memory and up to 384 processor cores with 8-threads per core."

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Re:Oracle gains speed by Chrisq · 2013-09-22 22:30 · Score: 4, Insightful

At first glance, one would think "Oracle" is a company devoted to catering high end golf outings and boat racing.
They make software, right?
Only as a means of raising the money for high end golf outings and boat racing.