Oracle announced the Oracle Big Data Appliance on October 3, 2011, at Oracle OpenWorld. It was similar to the
Oracle Exadata Database Machine and announced with the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine. The original hardware components of the appliance consisted of a full rack configuration with 864GB of main memory and 432 TB of storage. A full rack consists of 18 servers nodes each of which had two 6-core Intel processors, 48 GB memory per node (upgradable to 96 GB or 144 GB), 12 x 2TB disks per node, InfiniBand Networking and 10 GbE connectivity. == Software ==