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During the opening of Oracle's Open World conference last night, Larry Ellison introduced a new version of their Exadata database machine, completely packed with memory, as well as a glimpse into Oracle's database version 12c. It had been widely rumored that Ellison would unveil both of these products during the company's conference.

The new Exadata machine, called the Exadata X3, comes loaded with 26 total Terabytes of memory, split between 4TB of DRAM and 22TB of flash cache. All mounted in one rack, this Exadata X3 allows users to run all of their databases in-memory, meaning faster performance all around.

"If you thought the old Exadatas were fast, you ain't seen nothing yet," bragged Ellison as he opened up the conference.

"This is the hardware version of the Oracle cloud. Everything is in memory. All of your databases are in-memory. You virtually never use your disk drives. Disk drives are becoming passé. They're good at storing images and a lot of data we don't access very often."

These new X3 machines can also write data to memory faster than previous generations. According to Ellison, the Exadata X3 writes up to 20 times faster than the previous X2 machine, all while using 10 to 30 percent less power.

In addition to offering "blazing fast" performance to the customer, these new Exadata X3 machines can also store data more efficiently, compressing the data down by 10. Now, more data can be stored on these fast machines, saving the customer extra storage costs.