Because SuperCluster is a specially engineered system, we have confidence in that all the components are compatible with one another. Everything runs together as a well-coupled group of machines, and the performance is great (especially the memory).

The two features that I find to be the most valuable are high availability and high performance.

SuperCluster is basically a combination of Oracle, with Exadata and Compute node features, so it is a computing cluster that is integrated in a single infrastructure such that we don't need a separate solution for the application database, the data storage database, and everything else the application needs.

The promise of consolidation is still a strong selling point, especially if the prospective client has applications that run on SPARC and has its data store in an Oracle Database.

I think it's a highly integrated, powerful system that will support thousands of users, so that's why it was selected.

The most valuable feature is its ease of use and implementation.

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The scalability and the technical support that you get from Oracle are very valuable to us. 

The features of Oracle SuperCluster are more common based. If you want to make any additional configuration or changes to the virtualization layer, it is commonly based.

A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries.

I wouldn't say there is anything good about it because since it was deployed we have been having issues with the cluster.

It's not working as we expected. We thought it would be fast and reliable but we are not getting the reliability. It's not stable. It could be an issue with the network or configuration.