Global Industry Analyst Perspectives on Oracle Exadata X11M

January 7, 2025 | 6 minute read
Michael Brown
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Oracle
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Today, Oracle announced Oracle Exadata X11M, our next-generation intelligent data architecture that delivers higher performance, greater energy efficiency, and the choice and flexibility to run your critical database workloads wherever and however you want. You can deploy Exadata X11M on-premises and in the cloud—where it supports both Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI); in OCI multicloud environments at AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; and on Exadata Cloud@Customer in customer data centers.

Exadata X11M delivers faster performance than ever across transaction processing, AI, analytics, and mixed workload environments—at the same price as our previous-generation platform. Exadata X11M also helps customers meet their sustainability goals by running their database fleets on fewer, faster systems and by using built-in intelligent power management capabilities.

Leading industry analysts from around the world had the following to say about Oracle Exadata X11M:

The Futurum Group

“It’s never been more clear than today that Exadata is the industry standard platform to run Oracle Database. Whether its powering Oracle Database 23ai in the hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, and Google—or outperforming on-premises infrastructure from any major vendor out there—the latest Exadata X11M allows organizations to decide where they want to gain the best performance for their Oracle Database workloads—for everything from extreme vector processing to stock exchange-level transactions. Exadata X11M is clearly the gold standard by which all other platforms that try to run Oracle Database are measured by.”

—Ron Westfall, Research Director, The Futurum Group.

Enterprise Strategy Group

“It’s 2025, and Oracle kicks off the year with an innovation-fueled launch of its all-new Exadata X11M. With its ability to deliver over 6 TB/s analytics scans and push down all SQL into storage for unrivaled analytics throughput, organizations everywhere will now be able to access these business benefits for their Oracle Database workloads from all the leading hyperscale providers: AWS, Azure and Google. There’s nothing else like it in the market today.”

Stephen Catanzano, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

dbInsight

“The next generation of Oracle Exadata, X11M, is zeroing in on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Enterprises are looking to RAG to make their generative AI applications relevant to their business with their data. Exadata’s built-in massive parallelism and intelligent storage makes it well suited for handling extreme vector searches. Besides improving performance, Exadata X11M’s ultra-efficient design can help organizations meet their sustainability goals by reducing the amount of resources required for successful generative AI.”

Tony Baer, Principal, dbInsight

NAND Research

“The next-generation Exadata X11M is the quintessential hypercar of all cloud data platforms, with the performance to match. In terms of 8KB I/O latency for OLTP workloads, Exadata X11M is up to 70X faster on AWS than AWS RDS—and up to 70X faster on Azure than Azure SQL For anyone not keeping an eye on their cloud bill, you’re charged by the minute. Exadata X11M enables you to finish your cloud workload—be it AI Vector Search, analytics, or transactions—faster than other database cloud services—and the less time you spend in the cloud, the better for your wallet. Exadata X11M is a win for customers looking for the most powerful mainstream vector processing engine in the market, which also happens to be the best at running Oracle Database workloads. And it’s available in the cloud of your choice.”

—Steve McDowell, Chief Analyst, NAND Research

Constellation Research

“With AI at the top of all CIOs’ to-do list, in comes Oracle Exadata X11M, the newest and so far most powerful member of the Exadata family, with very impressive AI vector search metrics. Leveraging new hardware and system software, it delivers much faster performance across a whole range of AI functions including up to 30x faster AI binary vector queries while supporting thousands of concurrent AI vector searches. Best of all, CIOs have a choice of where and how to bring AI to their Oracle databases—across on-premises, hybrid cloud, public cloud and multicloud—by taking advantage of Exadata’s vaunted highest degree of identicality to facilitate data portability.”

—Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research

KuppingerCole Analysts

“The newest generation of the Exadata platform, X11M, continues Oracle’s tradition of combining cutting-edge hardware with intelligent software to accelerate diverse workloads, including OLTP, analytics, and now AI as well. Notably, it delivers these advancements at the same price point as its predecessor. What sets X11M apart is its unprecedented versatility—it is now available across all environments: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Cloud@Customer, on-premises, and as a new multicloud option. Whether running on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS, Oracle Exadata X11M offers consistent functionality and the strongest data security. Its end-to-end encryption protects against ransomware and data leaks, including risks associated with AI models, without compromising performance. With enhanced efficiency and automation, the platform helps reduce costs, energy consumption, and operational complexity, living up to its tagline as a ‘next-generation intelligent data architecture.’”

Alexei Balaganski, Lead Analyst & CTO, KuppingerCole Analysts

theCube Research

“Exadata X11M represents the latest evolution of Oracle’s decade-long investment in research and development, delivering a platform designed to handle Oracle Database workloads in highly demanding, mission-critical environments. Building on advancements from Oracle Database 23ai, Exascale, and Oracle’s multicloud partnerships with AWS, Azure, and Google, the X11M is positioned as the premier high-performance option for Oracle Database users. Notably, Exadata’s presence across all three hyperscale cloud providers reflects customer demand for simplified, high-performance database operations. Organizations increasingly need to unify data from SQL, JSON, and ERP/CX systems. Oracle Database 23ai and Exadata’s capabilities, such as AI Vector Search—now up to 32X faster than its predecessor—are a strong, strategic fit for the most demanding enterprise workloads.”

—Dave Vellante, Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer, theCube Research

“Exadata X11M is a vastly superior performance architecture for all transactional, analytical, and RAG inferencing workloads. Organizations today need to combine relational predicates and AI Vector Search in the same query, which is exactly what the combination of Exadata X11M, Oracle Database 23ai, Exascale, and Autonomous Database provides. The fact that customers have the flexibility to deploy wherever and however they require, makes the lives of AWS, Azure and Google customers a lot easier.”

—Marc Staimer, Senior Analyst, theCUBE Research

Omdia

“It’s clear, even in the world of large language models (LLMs) and GenAI, that the world’s most important business data continues to reside in traditional, business databases. To increase their competitive profile, companies are realizing that all of their training and inferencing data for AI needs to be extremely well structured, labeled, scalable, and secure.  This is the problem Oracle intends to solve with its new Exadata X11M running Oracle Database 23ai, especially in bringing this database to the leading hyperscalers of choice—AWS, Azure and Google. With Exadata 11M, Oracle is promising an immediate solution to data organization problems, no matter the data type, by combining business data with semantic data, all without running into data duplication and data consistency issues. Add in new capabilities like AI Smart Scan and AI Vector Search, and Exadata X11M can take enterprise AI vector processing to a whole new level of performance with an up to 43% increase in in-memory vector index (HNSW) queries. This is a brilliant strategy that puts the Oracle customer first across all major cloud platforms.”

Bradley Shimmin, Chief Analyst, AI & Data Analytics, Omdia

Moor Insights & Strategy

“IT organizations experience budget and resource tensions as AI initiatives compete with supporting mission-critical analytics and OLTP applications across the enterprise. Flat budgets and overtasked database teams are often unable to keep up with the demand of the business in this data-driven era. Oracle Exadata 11M helps relieve these tensions through performance, utilization and efficiency gains. Furthermore, Exadata Administration performs workload-specific tuning and securing for the most critical workloads. Whether on prem or in the cloud, Oracle Exadata 11M should be given a serious look.”

Matt Kimball, Principal Datacenter Analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy

HyperFRAME Research

“The next generation Exadata X11M brings a new level of power efficiency and sustainability to Oracle Database customers—at the same price as the prior generation. With built-in intelligence to turn off unneeded CPU cores, optimize power for low usage periods and cap power consumption, this more eco-friendly Exadata generation is available in every leading cloud and on-premises. And by adding Autonomous Database to it, organizations obtain an extreme level of sophisticated automation that provides more time for innovation—and eliminates human error and malicious behavior. Clearly, Oracle has raised the bar on mission-critical data platform architectures, once again.”

—Steven Dickens, CEO and Principal Analyst, HyperFRAME Research

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Michael Brown

Senior Director, Product Marketing, Oracle

Michael is a seasoned product marketing and product management director with experience in real-time systems, high performance computing, graphics, storage, and databases. He currently manages the Oracle Exadata Cloud and Engineered Systems product marketing team. Michael holds an MBA from Wharton, an MSEE from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, and both a BS in Engineering and BA in Philosophy from Swarthmore College.

 

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