Why Choose Lightbits to Power Your Oracle Database on the Cloud?
Lightbits makes Oracle on the cloud better than ever by exceeding the performance limits of native cloud solutions delivering up to 4x more IOPs than native cloud storage on AWS or Azure, offering enterprise data services included in the license, and predictable low cost for IO-intensive workloads. With Lightbits you can migrate your Oracle workloads on AWS or Azure cost-efficiently and with equivalent performance that you are used to on-premises for a better Oracle experience on the cloud.
Lower and Predictable Costs.
High Performance.
Flexibility
Lightbits for Oracle on Azure
Storage will affect how well your Oracle tasks run, how reliable they are, and how much they cost. Understanding the choices of available storage options and their performance capabilities is the key to successfully migrating Oracle to Azure VMs.
“Lightbits has the most scalable and highest performance storage we’ve tested on Azure.”
— Azure Storage Product Manager
The Lightbits Advantage
Efficiency
Efficiency
- Compression and compaction
- Thin Provisioning
- Cluster auto scale up and down
- Unlimited and flexible snapshots and clones
- Unlimited restores
- Per volume replication policies with data protection via 3-way replication
- Pay for used capacity, not provisioned capacity
High Performance and Consistent
Low Latency
High Performance and Consistent
Low Latency
- 1M IOPS/volume
- Low <500 µsec avg latency
- sub-millisecond tail latency
- Accelerate application performance without adding cores or nodes
Ease of Use
Ease of Use
- 15-minute setup
- CloudFormation and AMI-based setup
- Available on AWS Marketplace
- API and command-line
- Cluster auto scale up and down
- Cluster load distribution & rebalancing
- Auto upgrades
- Auto healing
- Hybrid models, migrate to the cloud at your pace and on your terms
Better by the Numbers
In testing using real-world workload scenarios, Lightbits delivers up to 4.6X more IOPS than the best available cloud native storage (EBS io2 Block Express), which reaches its limits at around 250K IOPS.
Lightbits on Azure can deliver almost 1M sustained IPS of 8KB while Ultra Disk is limited to only 80K IOPS of 8KB.
Lightbits on AWS Deployment Model
Lightbits offers the best hybrid cloud platform so you can migrate to the cloud at your pace and on your terms. Your Lightbits licenses are portable between on-premises and public cloud(s).
Lightbits for Oracle on Azure VMs
Storage will affect how well your Oracle tasks run, how reliable they are, and how much they cost. Understanding the choices of available storage options and their performance capabilities is the key to successfully migrating Oracle to Azure VMs.
Read this Microsoft article, which explains more about the storage options for Oracle on Azure VMs.
