Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President of Oracle Corporation‘s Systems Group, said that Oracle Exadata Database Machines have never been faster — in fact, they are faster than anything else currently on the market. He sat down with Dave Vellante and John Furrier on theCUBE at the Oracle Next Generation Engineered Systems Launch to offer insight into what Oracle calls the “new generation of database machines.”

In one of Oracle’s “biggest releases ever,” Loaiza said the tech behemoth has made “vast improvements to the hardware” and added “specific software features.” For Exadata, Loaiza said this includes all flash memory, virtualization, columnar compression (a system of high level data compression designed to take advantage of an optimized column-and-row storage format), and fault-tolerant in-memory processing. These changes, Loaiza explained, take performance to a whole new level. Improvements like these have been made possible, he said, because Oracle owns the “entire system.”

Because Oracle controls, as Loaiza stated, “the database software, as well as the OS, as well as the storage, as well as the networking,” it’s free to move functions between these features. Loaiza cited an example: “We can put network protocols directly into our databases, instead of an OS. We can put storage protocols directly into our database. We can move database functions into storage.” All this interconnectivity means that Oracle Engineered Systems function more efficiently and with less expense than a combination of an Oracle database on top of “generic radar, generic network, and generic storage.” Loaiza explained.

Tight integration, Loaiza said, enables Exadata to take advantage of technologies in a new and exciting way. In Exadata, he said enthusiastically, “the chip talks directly to the Flash.” Oracle promises 260 gigabytes of data throughput with this new configuration,

This type of interconnectivity between hardware and software is where Oracle wants to leave a lasting mark.  They’ve already mastered bringing together hardware and software teams to optimize the whole system, and Loaiza said that this change will help Oracle move forward by “optimizing the formats for the database” as well as specializing hardware and chips to create the next generation of engineered database systems.

Watch the full interview with Loaiza below, and be sure to check out even more from SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s Coverage of Oracle’s Next Generation Engineered Systems Launch.