Larry Ellison introduces the Oracle Autonomous Database at the Oracle OpenWorld opening Keynote. Photo by Marcus Siu
Article and photos by Marcus Siu
SAN FRANCISCO, OCTOBER 1, 2017 – Larry Ellison, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO, introduced the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud at the Opening Keynote at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Sunday night to a packed audience at the four day OpenWorld Conference.
“Now, I don’t use the word revolutionary new technology every year here at Oracle OpenWorld. We don’t — you know, because there aren’t that many revolutionary new technologies. But this one is. “, Ellison quoted to the packed auditorium.
“This is a big deal by the way. No one else does this,” said Ellison. “This is the most important thing we’ve done in a long, long time.”
With the help of machine learning, the Autonomous Data Cloud also helps eliminate the need for human labor for any types of patches, system downtime, or any type of maintenance typically needed when something goes awry.
With no need for human labor, you get no human error.
This means Oracle can keep the planned or unplanned downtime to less than 30 minutes a year; something that Amazon cannot handle since theirs is a manual system, relying on human intervention all the time for patches and downtime, even though they guarantee themselves being up 99.95% reliability. However, if you read section 61 on their contract, the calculation does not take into consideration any kind of downtime, which is quite misleading to the Amazon consumer.
Oracle has no exclusions for downtime and offers a 99.995% reliability.
The Oracle Autonomous Database also comes with the Highly Automated Cyber Security, which were developed together and designed to prevent data theft, which companies such as Equifax could have definitely benefited from before they compromised their customers.
“Amazon is five to eight times more expensive running the identical workload than the Oracle Autonomous Database.” Photo by Marcus Siu
Ellison compared six demos of benchmark test results showing how much time and money is saved through by using Oracle. Comparing Oracle against Amazon Web Services, the results were staggering. In each of the tests, you it would save between 5 to 9 times.
Oracle used two sets of tests: Oracle on Oracle cloud versus Oracle on the Amazon cloud, with the second test being Oracle on the Oracle cloud vs Redshift on the Amazon cloud.
“These are real customer workloads…these are not Oracle went out and made up the most ridiculous demos to make Amazon look bad they could come up with,” remarked Ellison. “These are data sets that we actually used for stress testing, and performance testing, and validating our database.”
In the last benchmark demo, Ellison gave Amazon, which was using Redshift, a 42 second head start and showed how quickly Oracle surpassed them and finished. Oracle finished in 38 seconds costing two cents. AWS finally finished at 244 seconds, which is well over six times slower than Oracle.
With Amazon currently having the prominent lead in the cloud business over the last few years, it looks like Oracle should be able to compete and surpass it fairly quickly, just like they did and proved in their last demo. It is obvious through these tests that it is technically superior.
The real challenge for Oracle right now is they need to find customers who are actually willing to pay a lot less for higher performance, higher availability, along with lower labor costs with automated security patching, disaster recovery for their product.
Maybe that will change when the Oracle 18c rolls out in when the real clouds come in the wintery months of December.
Ellison regarding Amazon: “They are one of the biggest Oracle users on the planet Earth…and every year, that number in green goes up.” Photo by Marcus Siu
https://www.oracle.com/openworld/on-demand.html?bcid=5595329007001
Here is the official press release from Oracle.
Press Release
Oracle Unveils World’s First Autonomous Database Cloud
Also Introduces Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud that has Demonstrated Performance of 10x Faster at Half the Cost of Amazon
Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, Calif.—Oct 2, 2017
At Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Oracle Chairman of the Board and CTO Larry Ellison unveiled his vision for the world’s first autonomous database cloud. Powered by Oracle Database 18c, the next generation of the industry-leading database, Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud uses ground-breaking machine learning to enable automation that eliminates human labor, human error and manual tuning, to enable unprecedented availability, high performance and security at a much lower cost.
“This is the most important thing we’ve done in a long, long time,” said Ellison. “The automation does everything. We can guarantee availability of 99.995 percent, less than 30 minutes of planned or unplanned downtime.”
The Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud eliminates the human labor associated with tuning, patching, updating and maintaining the database and includes the following capabilities:
- Self-Driving: Provides continuous adaptive performance tuning based on machine learning. Automatically upgrades and patches itself while running. Automatically applies security updates while running to protect against cyberattacks.
- Self-Scaling: Instantly resizes compute and storage without downtime. Cost savings are multiplied because Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud consumes less compute and storage than Amazon, with lower manual administration costs.
- Self-Repairing: Provides automated protection from downtime. SLA guarantees 99.995 percent reliability and availability, which reduces costly planned and unplanned downtime to less than 30-minutes per year.
The Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud handles many different workload styles, including transactions, mixed workloads, data warehouses, graph analytics, departmental applications, document stores and IoT. The first Autonomous Database Cloud offering, for data warehouse workloads, is planned to be available in calendar year 2017.
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is a next-generation cloud service built on the self-driving Oracle Autonomous Database technology using machine learning to deliver unprecedented performance, reliability and ease of deployment for data warehouses. As an autonomous cloud service, it eliminates error-prone manual management tasks and frees up DBA resources, which can now be applied to implementing more strategic business projects.
“Every organization is trying to leverage the overwhelming amount of data generated in our digital economy,” said Carl Olofson, research vice president, IDC. “With a history of established leadership in the database software market segment, it is no surprise that Oracle is pioneering a next-generation data management platform. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is designed to deliver industry-leading database technology performance with unmatched flexibility, enterprise scale and simplicity. The intent is to ensure that businesses get more value from their data and modernize how data is managed.”
Highlights of the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud include:
- Simplicity: Unlike traditional cloud services with complex, manual configurations that require a database expert to specify data distribution keys and sort keys, build indexes, reorganize data or adjust compression, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is a simple “load and go” service. Users specify tables, load data and then run their workloads in a matter of seconds—no manual tuning is needed.
- Industry-Leading Performance: Unlike traditional cloud services, which use generic compute shapes for database cloud services, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is built on the high-performance Oracle Exadata platform. Performance is further enhanced by fully-integrated machine learning algorithms which drive automatic caching, adaptive indexing and advanced compression.
- Instant Elasticity: Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud allocates new data warehouses of any size in seconds and scales compute and storage resources independently of one another with no downtime. Elasticity enables customers to pay for exactly the resources that the database workloads require as they grow and shrink.
Oracle Database 18c
Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud is powered by the next generation of the world’s #1 database, Oracle Database 18c. Oracle Database 18c delivers breakthrough automation capabilities, as well as greatly enhanced OLTP, analytics and consolidation technologies.
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