Accelerating Databases with the Sun™ Storage F5100 Flash Array by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The Sun™ Storage F5100 Flash Array is an innovation in storage technology, delivering the low latency and high I/O bandwidth characteristic of flash media to meet the storage requirements of modern databases.
This Sun BluePrints™ article shows how to apply the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array as storage for database indexes in order to accelerate application performance. Storing indexes on flash storage can improve performance in two ways:
Given a fixed workload, indexes on flash storage can reduce application response time Given a fixed desired response time, indexes on flash storage can increase the maximum supportable workload