Oracle of the week Said Oracle announced that it has ported Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition, the current long-term support release of Oracle Database, to Ampere’s Altra processor, which uses the Arm Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). The move marks a milestone for both Ampere and Arm ISA, as Oracle is one of the most widely used enterprise software suites.
Separately, the company said it may eventually phase out x86-based instances running Database on AMD and Intel processors from its data centers in favor of instances powered by Ampere CPUs. . By tuning its database software to his Ampere single-threaded CPUs, Oracle hopes to see measurable improvements in data center performance efficiency. Additionally, his Ampere, of which Oracle is the lead investor, could also implement tweaks to his CPU to run Oracle’s databases better.
“Moving to a new supplier is a big promise. We’ve moved to a new architecture, and we’ve moved to a new supplier,” Oracle founder Larry Ellison reportedly said at an event hosted by Ampere. Reuters. “We think this is the future. After decades on the market, the old Intel x86 architecture is reaching its limits.”
Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition is available for both on-premises deployments and the cloud by subscribing to Oracle Database Service using OCI Ampere A1 compute instances enabled by Ampere Altra on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) certified to work with Ampere Altra-based servers. It will likely continue to be available on AMD and Intel powered instances for years to come. But Oracle wants to offer a “very economical price point” with his Arm-based Ampere servers.
Oracle’s OCI Ampere A1 is available in flexible VM formats ranging from 1 to 57 CPU cores, with each CPU core having 8GB of memory (up to 456GB) and 1 Gbps of network bandwidth per each CPU core ( up to 40 Gbps total per each CPU core). VMs).
Oracle’s enterprise database management software is used by large enterprises, banks, government agencies, retailers, and manufacturers to run online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW), and mixed (OLTP and DW) workloads. used. The software has been in development since 1979 and runs on a variety of hardware including IBM mainframe and power-based systems, AMD and Intel x86 CPUs, Sun SPARC processors, Intel IA64 (Itanium) chips, and now Arm. We support hardware and software platforms. Ampere Altra-based SoCs.
Ampere Chief Product Officer Jeff Wittich said: “Today’s announcement highlights a broad architectural shift across the market to Ampere processors that meet the demands of both modern cloud and on-premises environments.” “Oracle Database customers, a database with a database of all sizes, can now take advantage of a high-performance, energy-efficient architecture built with sustainability in mind for organizations of all sizes.”
Running databases on energy-efficient cloud-native Ampere Altra CPUs promises huge economic benefits for Oracle, but OCI still needs top performance and lightning speed You need to provide high-performance computing (HPC) and Dense-IO instances for your users. – Fast local storage.Well, this week the company announced OCI Compute E5 HPC and OCI Compute E5 Dense-IO are instantiated based on AMD’s 4th generation EPYC processors with massive core counts and rich I/O capabilities.
