<s>
The	O
Oracle	B-Device
Exadata	I-Device
Database	O
Machine	O
(	O
Exadata	B-Device
)	O
is	O
a	O
computing	O
platform	O
optimized	O
for	O
running	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
Databases	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Exadata	B-Device
is	O
a	O
combined	O
hardware	O
and	O
software	O
platform	O
that	O
includes	O
scale-out	O
x86-64	B-Device
compute	O
and	O
storage	O
servers	O
,	O
RoCE	B-Operating_System
or	O
InfiniBand	B-Architecture
networking	O
,	O
RDMA-addressable	O
memory	O
acceleration	O
,	O
NVMe	B-Application
flash	O
,	O
and	O
specialized	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Exadata	B-Device
was	O
introduced	O
in	O
2008	O
for	O
on-premises	O
deployment	O
,	O
and	O
,	O
since	O
October	O
2015	O
,	O
via	O
the	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
as	O
a	O
subscription	O
service	O
,	O
known	O
as	O
the	O
Exadata	B-Device
Database	O
Service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Exadata	B-Device
Cloud	O
@Customer	O
is	O
an	O
on-premises	O
implementation	O
of	O
Exadata	B-Device
Database	O
Service	O
,	O
available	O
since	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Oracle	B-General_Concept
databases	I-General_Concept
deployed	O
in	O
the	O
Exadata	B-Device
Database	O
Service	O
or	O
Exadata	B-Device
Cloud	O
@Customer	O
are	O
100%	O
compatible	O
with	O
databases	O
deployed	O
on	O
Exadata	B-Device
on-premises	O
,	O
enabling	O
customers	O
to	O
transition	O
to	O
the	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
with	O
no	O
application	O
changes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Oracle	B-General_Concept
Corporation	O
manages	O
this	O
service	O
,	O
including	O
hardware	O
,	O
network	O
,	O
Linux	O
software	O
and	O
Exadata	B-Device
software	O
,	O
while	O
customers	O
have	O
complete	O
ownership	O
of	O
their	O
databases	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Exadata	B-Device
is	O
designed	O
to	O
run	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
Database	I-General_Concept
workloads	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
an	O
OLTP	B-General_Concept
application	O
running	O
simultaneously	O
with	O
Analytics	O
processing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Historically	O
,	O
specialized	O
database	O
computing	O
platforms	O
were	O
designed	O
for	O
a	O
particular	O
workload	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Data	O
Warehousing	O
,	O
and	O
poor	O
or	O
unusable	O
for	O
other	O
workloads	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
OLTP	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Exadata	B-Device
allows	O
mixed	O
workloads	O
to	O
share	O
system	O
resources	O
fairly	O
with	O
resource	O
management	O
features	O
allowing	O
prioritized	O
allocation	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
always	O
favoring	O
workloads	O
servicing	O
interactive	O
users	O
over	O
reporting	O
and	O
batch	O
,	O
even	O
if	O
they	O
are	O
accessing	O
the	O
same	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Long	O
running	O
requests	O
,	O
characterized	O
by	O
Data	O
Warehouses	O
,	O
reports	O
,	O
batch	O
jobs	O
and	O
Analytics	O
,	O
are	O
reputed	O
to	O
run	O
many	O
times	O
faster	O
compared	O
to	O
a	O
conventional	O
,	O
non-Exadata	O
database	O
server	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
the	O
platform	O
has	O
been	O
around	O
since	O
2008	O
,	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
has	O
published	O
information	O
related	O
to	O
the	O
end-of-support	O
for	O
older	O
Exadata	B-Device
generations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
look	O
up	O
the	O
"	O
last	O
ship	O
date	O
"	O
of	O
a	O
particular	O
Oracle	B-Device
Exadata	I-Device
generation	O
,	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
published	O
a	O
document	O
titled	O
Oracle	B-Device
Exadata	I-Device
-	O
A	O
guide	O
for	O
decision	O
makers	O
.	O
</s>
