Multiple choice technology platforms and products

Which of the following is an example of a weakness in the offerings from competitors to the Sun Oracle Database Machine?

  1. The competition cannot handle mixed OLTP and Reporting demands.

  2. The competition has limited flash capabilities.

  3. The competition is not fully fault tolerant.

  4. The competition uses commodity hardware
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A,B,C Correct answer
Explanation

Competitors to the Sun Oracle Database Machine have several weaknesses: they cannot handle mixed OLTP and reporting demands effectively, have limited flash capabilities compared to Exadata's smart flash cache, and are not fully fault tolerant across all layers. Using commodity hardware is actually a shared characteristic, not a weakness: the Exadata also uses commodity components but adds software intelligence.

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