17. Using SSDs to Solve I/O Bottlenecks
For most of the history of the Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS), the primary goal of performance tuning has been to avoid I/O at all cost. I/O to magnetic disk devices has always been many orders of magnitude slower than memory or CPU access, and the situation has only grown worse as Moore’s law accelerated the performance of CPU and memory while leaving mechanical disk performance behind. Solid-state drive (SSD) represents a revolutionary technology that provides a quantum leap in disk performance.
In recent years, SSD technology has shifted from an expensive luxury to a mainstream technology that has a place in almost every performance-critical Oracle database. Replacing all magnetic ...
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