Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Archives

April 9, 2018

Oracle 18c: Larry Ellison and the Autonomous Database

Although Larry started his presentation last week with a small faux-pas and members of the audience had to wait for the correct slides, waiting is definitely not something customers can expect from the Oracle Cloud with the new 18c Database. Everything will be better, faster, and most importantly “self-driving”. Highlights of the launch featured the […]

December 17, 2017

OCI and AWS 10Gbit network test

n this blog we will compare the network performance of instances in OCI and AWS. The Network is a sensitive resource in multi-tenant environments, and is usually one of the first contributors leading to diminished performance when the environment is oversubscribed. In AWS there is a concept of Placement groups. Network performance is optimized between […]

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December 14, 2017

Create a physical copy of your local database in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with no backup.

The focus of this article would be cloud specific steps rather than repeating already well known steps in the net.Its purpose is only to give you an idea for an use case and should not be used in a production environment. The high level setup: Source:Two nodes (VirtualBox) Oracle Linux 7.Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12.2 .Oracle […]

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November 14, 2017

OCI command line setup and some interesting features

This article shows how to install and configure OCI command line under Linux OS. It also covers some features that may ease your life when using the tool like: profiles, output filtering, generating and reusing templates for creating objects in the cloud. Install. The “new” OCI command line tool is actually a next version of […]

November 14, 2017

Benchmarking Oracle’s DBaaS against RDS – A Performance Comparison.

The following Blog discusses the process and results of testing I/O performance of an Oracle Database running on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) compared to the same database running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Oracle Stress Testing Tool (SLOB) was used to test Data Load Performance, IOPS, physical random single-block reads and single block writes. […]

October 30, 2017

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure NVMe SSD vs AWS local storage. Broader test.

In this blog we compared Oracle Cloud Infrastructure baremetal local NVMe SSD with AWS instance NVMe store on MemSQL use case. MemSQL load mostly concerned about concurrent writes, and relatively large reads. Thins blog will do broader test, covering most performance aspects of SSD. Will use Cloud Harmony Block storage project for benchmarking. In my opinion it is one […]

October 19, 2017

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure vs AWS. NVMe SSD test for MemSQL use case.

One of the big use cases for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) formerly known as Baremetal Cloud is noSQL and newSQL. Oracle states what big advantage on storage layer would be PCIe based NVMe SSD with super low latency. And elimination of virtualization layer would let it shine at full. While MemSQL row store is in-memory, […]

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