06/12-10   -   Press releases

Oracle Beats IBM with Nearly Three Times Better Throughput

Oracle SPARC Supercluster with SPARC T3-4 Servers Demonstrates Better Response Time and Low Cost Per Transaction with Record Breaking TPC-C Benchmark Result

News Facts

- Today, Oracle announced a world record TPC-C benchmark result for Oracle® Database 11g Release 2 on a SPARC Supercluster with SPARC T3-4 servers(1), beating the fastest IBM TPC-C result with DB2 running on IBM’s POWER7-based server cluster(2).

- Achieving 30,249,688 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $1.01/tpmC, the winning SPARC Supercluster with SPARC T3-4 servers consisted of 27 SPARC T3-4 servers with flash storage technology using Sun Storage F5100 Flash Arrays.

- Oracle Real Application Clusters allowed the SPARC Supercluster with SPARC T3-4 servers to scale performance by nearly 3 times compared to the highest level ever recorded with the TPC-C benchmark while ensuring high availability and better response times(3). Oracle Real Application Clusters is in production use at thousands of customers, enabling transparent scaling of real-world business applications.

- Oracle now holds the TPC-C world record in both major categories – performance(1) and price/performance(4).

- Also today, Oracle unveiled the SPARC Supercluster based on SPARC T3-2 servers. Built using the same innovations that delivered the OLTP performance demonstrated in the TPC-C benchmark, it features the latest software and hardware from Oracle, including Oracle´s Sun FlashFire storage, InfiniBand networking and Oracle´s ZFS Storage Appliance products.

Supporting Quotes

“Independently audited results are now available showcasing the latest technologies from IBM and Oracle. The comparison couldn’t be more clear. Oracle demonstrated a huge advantage on all the important metrics including performance, response time, and cost," said Juan Loaiza, Oracle Senior Vice President, Systems Technology.
Supporting Resources

Oracle Database 11g
http://www.oracle.com/database/index.html

Oracle Solaris
http://www.oracle.com/solaris

Oracle Benchmarks
http://www.oracle.com/solutions/performance_scalability/index.html#_blank

Oracle Exadata
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/database-machine/index.html

About TPC-C
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/default.asp

About Oracle

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As of December 2, 2010: Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), www.tpc.org.
(1) Oracle Sun SPARC T3-4 server cluster, 30,249,688 tpmC, $1.01/tpmC, available 6/1/11.
(2) IBM Power 780 Server Model 9179-MHB, 10,366,254/tpmC, $1.38/tpmC, available 10/13/2010 (Best IBM DB2 TPC-C result).
(3) Based on average response time of New Order transaction in TPC-C benchmark.
(4) HP ProLiant ML350 G-6, 290,040 tpmC, .39/tpmC, 4.22 Watts/tpmC, available 8/16/2010.