Oracle Exadata is an engineered system that is optimized for Oracle Database performance. It addresses traditional storage bottlenecks by offloading processing from servers to storage cells. Exadata uses hybrid columnar compression to increase effective storage capacity and scan bandwidth. Its modular storage cells provide massive parallelism and scale bandwidth with capacity. Exadata's smart flash cache solves random I/O bottlenecks. It is the standard platform for enterprise applications and provides extreme performance for all workloads.