Oracle Openworld 2013: Liveblog of the Opening Keynote

Larry Ellison is going to be a happy man. His team won the America's Cup competition today, so the keynote is bound to be even more upbeat than usual. We'll be doing a liveblog of the event, letting you know about announcements as they occur. Let us know if you have any specific questions as we see what Oracle has planned for the year.

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Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Welcome to this Neowin.net live event. Coverage will begin shortly.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White The keynote is about to begin -- an intro video is playing with exciting music in the background.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Judy Sim, Chief Marketing officer to kick off.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Only 50 people at the first OpenWorld conference

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White 60,000 attendees this year, 30% outside of NA (145 countries)

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White If you want to try streaming any of the Keynotes yourself, you can try this link - video isnt live yet though: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/live/on-demand/index.html

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Bocce Ball experts will be in Moscone West... Very technical. :D

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White There's an interactive golf simulator too if you're into that sort of thing - more technical than bocce ball. :)

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Talking about the parties now -- the Maroon 5 and Black Keys concert Wednesday night.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Oracle has a "chief sustainability officer?" Are we taking this "eco" thing a little too far? Or is this a good thing?

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Talking about America's Cup now.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Just preliminary stuff - talking about San Francisco, how it's a great city for the conference, and how great America's Cup is.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Next up: Chief Corporate Architect from Oracle, Edward Screven

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White He's announcing the Fujitsu keynote.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White First mention of Big Data - take a drink. :)

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White I really miss how strong Sun/Fujitsu were... Not sure that people want big iron like this anymore though.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Fujitsu obviously hopes I'm wrong. :)

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Noriyuko Toyoki, SVP of Fujitsu coming on the stage.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White "Shaping Tomorrow Through Modernization and Innovation"

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympics.

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Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Elephants in Sri Lanka swim to an island that is now isolated...

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Only the smart, courageous, adventurous elephants make that journey.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White To ensure our chances of survival, we must be courageous enough to explore opportunities -- innovation.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White I'm not sure I got his connection between innovation and elephants, but ok.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Showing an example of filtering Big Data.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White After filtering data, we call the results "Valuable Data." Umm, ok.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Computer vs Human in Shogi.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Shogi game is similar to chess - have you heard of it?

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Using Big Data to play the game, the computer can take data from over 500,000 past games to decide moves.

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Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White You win by getting a triangle, might have to look into it.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White A board game is easier to map than a business, but the goal is the same - to beat the competition. Nicely said.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Big Data requires high performance to compute in a short amount of time, and must be flexible and have expandability to do new types of analysis that will be required.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White How did Fujitsu design the M10? We'll dig into that.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White SAP SD benchmark

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Performance: 126,063 users, peak performance = 21 (users/$K)

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Twice as good as IBM's machines.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White But how can we manage even larger amounts of data?

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White The in-memory database concept; I've seen banners about that around the conference, big topic.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Hard drive access = ms, memory acccess = nanoseconds

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White More memory=drastic leap in performance.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Makes sense - and we've been pinning tables in memory for a long time. But memory is getting cheaper.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Throughput performance is important, but so is response performance. How to process big data in realtime.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Most servers offer the same throughput. 4 jobs/second in the example.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Response is how much time each takes.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Fujitsu did two jobs in the time the competitors did 0.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Because Fujitsu servers have better response. So adding more servers adds more response.

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Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White That was from the STREAM Benchmark.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Flexibility and expandability also important.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Fujitsu M10 allows CPU core activation and has building blocks

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Fujitsu M10-1 includes 16 cores (max)

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Activate in increments of 2 without adding hardware.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Fujitsu M10-4 has up to 64 cores.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Fujitsu M10-4S can be used as building blocks.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Activate all 64 cores, then add a second box to the first without interrupting the system.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Can add cores in increments of 2.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Can add up to 16 boxes, 1024 cores, 64TB of memory. WOW!

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Software on a chip.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Common routines can be put on hardware to increase speed. This increases speed.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Overall, Fujitsu keynote isn't generating much excitement....

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Andrew Mendelsohn, SVP, Oraccle Database Server Technologies (Oracle) coming on stage with Fujitsu.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Said that IO isn't as important with in-memory databases... But I disagree.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White So far, this keynote has been a dud, and the crowd seems to agree.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Next up: Customer Cases

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White I hope Larry can bring this thing back on track when he finally gts on stage.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Talking about Canon printers and cameras...

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Canon uses Exalogic, Exadata, and Fujitsu M10

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Fujitsu contuing to improve the M10.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White CMI - Coherent Memory Interconnect

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White New technology.

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Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White CMI will be able to reduce speed to 1/10th the speed of Infiniband.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Fujitsu booth at Moscone South, Booth #1501.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White I wonder how many people are actually using the Fujitsu M10. They lost a ton of market share during the Oracle/Sun acquisition.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White @qhardy on Twitter summed up the Fujitsu keynote nicely: If only Michael Jackson had watched Fujitsu talks instead of taking coma-inducing drugs to try and sleep.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Fujitsu ended their portion. Now we get an Oracle video of people excercising. Very un-IT like.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Brand new in-memory option in 12c.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White 100x faster queries: real time analytics.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White And 2x increase transaction processing rates (insert rows 3-4x faster)

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Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Talking about adding rows into a database... Seems simple enough.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Been around since the beginning of relational databases, so nothing new yet.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Analytics run faster on column format.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Column format databases have been around 5 years or so.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Oracle has a better idea. Dual format in-memory database.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Store both row and column in-memory formats for same data/table.

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Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White When you update one, you have to update the other - transactional consistency.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Oracle In-Memory Columnar Technology

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White How does it work faster when you have to update both row and column??? He'll come back to that question.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Near zero overhead on data changes: OLTP runs faster

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Pure in-memory columnar processing: no loggin

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Data loaded in-memory for active tables or partitions

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Each CPU core scans local in-memory columns. Uses SIMD vector instructions.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White That gives you BILLIONS of rows/second scan rate per CPU core.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Converts join processing into fast column scans, improving table join speeds by 10x.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White OLTP is slowed down by analytic indexes.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Inserting one row into a table requires 10-20 analytic indexes to be updated: SLOW!

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White DBA has to guess what queries are going to come up as well.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Column store replaces analytic indexes.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White How do you turn on the in memory option in Oracle?

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Easy - see screenshot.

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Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Unfortunately, the Exadata was in the way - so we couldn't see the whole command LOL

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Christopher White ‏@Fezmid now Larry Ellison: "Just throw a switch and turn on in-memory database. EVERYTHING runs faster without a SINGLE change to the app."

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Want to see Fujitsu's slideshow? Here it is: http://www.slideshare.net/Fuji...enworld-2013-fujitsukeynote

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Difference between pinning database in memory and using in-memory database? The former is in rows, the latter is columnar based.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White 3 billion row table -- every Wikipedia query over the last week of August.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Currently, you need to make index based on what queries the user wants to run.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White 1.5 seconds to get 415k results from 3 billion rows with a good index.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White A few minutes to get results without an index. Slow for users.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White With in-memory option, we get 7 BILLION rows scanned in 1 second.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White That's fast.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White In-memory speed + capacity of low cost disk.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Data automatically migrates from disk, to flash, to DRAM, based on usage.

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Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Can also scale up -- interprocessor bandwidth far exceeds Infiniband.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Sumary: Extreme performance: Analytics & OLTP, extreme scale-out and scalepup, extreme availability

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Announcing the M6-32 - Big Memory Machine

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White 32TB of DRAM, 32 SPARC M6 chips (2x the cores of the M5);. Fastest in-memory database. Available NOW

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White M6 has 12 cores per processor, 96 threads per processor

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White 3TB per second bandwidth

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Larry showed a diagram of the chip architecture and joked that he was going to explain each line: "I expect to be done on Wednesday at 4pm." :D

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White vs the IBM P795, has 2sx memory capacity, 50% more CPU cores, twice the bandwidth, at a fraction of the cost.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Running the wikipedia demo again.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Larry has a titanium watch -- much cheaper than his America's Cup boat. :)

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White In-memory database scan on the M6-32 -- 341072 million rows/second!!!

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Oracle Database Backup, Logging, Recovery Appliance

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Larry named it, "that's why I get the big bucks." :D

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White The appliance scales up to backing up 1000s of databases

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Now he says 10s of thousands of databases can be backed up.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Has Exadata technology in the appliance...

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White You have a little Intel machine, back it up, have Exadata, back that up, have a database on IBM hardware, backs that up.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Has a catelog that keeps track of all of the data. Will even archive it to tape if you want it ot.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Does point in time recovery

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Can be on a WAN.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Buy one to backup your databases, then if you want an additional copy, backup to the Oracle cloud.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White (Oracle public cloud)

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Or buy two appliances and they can replicate between themselves in different datacenters.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White This type of device doesn't exist anywhere else.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Datacenter of the future.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Datacenter core: Intel 2 socket servers, virtualized linux, ethernet interconnect. Stuff is cheap, good for everything.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Larry: "The stuff is cheap, but it's NOT good for everything."

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White Engineered systems are important.

Sep 22, 2013 Christopher White And this ends the keynote. Thanks for following along, and be sure to ask us if you have any questions you'd like to see us find answers for while we're here at Oracle OpenWorld this week!