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The '''Oracle Exadata''' '''Database Machine''' ('''Exadata'''<ref name=":30">{{Cite web|url=https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/engineered-systems/exadata/exadata-x8m-2-ds.pdf|title=Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8M-2|last=Various|date=September 2019|website=oracle.com|access-date=September 19, 2019}}</ref>) is a computing platform optimized for running [[Oracle Database|Oracle Databases]].

Exadata is a combined [https://blogs.oracle.com/exadata/exadata-why-and-what hardware and software platform] that includes [[Scale out|scale-out]] Intel [[x86-64]] compute and storage servers, [[RDMA over Converged Ethernet|RoCE]] or [[InfiniBand]] networking, [[3D XPoint|persistent memory]] (PMEM), [[NVM Express|NVMe]] flash, and specialized software.

Exadata was introduced in 2008 for on-premises deployment, and, since October 2015, is available either as an on-premises product or via the [[Oracle Cloud]] as a subscription service, known as the ''Exadata Cloud Service''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service: A Beginner's Guide|last=Spendolini|first=Brian|publisher=Oracle Press|year=2019|isbn=978-1260120875|___location=Amazon.com}}</ref> Exadata Cloud@Customer is an on-premises implementation of Exadata Cloud Service, available since 2017. Oracle databases deployed in the Exadata Cloud Service or Exadata Cloud@Customer are 100% compatible with databases deployed on Exadata on-premises, which enables customers to transition to the Oracle Cloud with no application changes. Oracle Corporation manages this service, including hardware, network, Linux software and Exadata software, while customers have complete ownership of their databases.

==Use cases==