Friday, June 19, 2009

DBFS

Yesterday I attended Kevin Closson's Exadata technical deep dive webcast series part 4. It is now available to download here. In there he talks about DBFS which is a filesystem on top of the Oracle database which can store normal files like text files. DBFS is provided with Exadata and is used to store staging files for the ETL/ELT process. This looks very promising, he sites several tests he conducted and gives performance numbers too. Watch the webcast if you haven't yet.