17 september 2002 - Oracle Corporation, 's werelds grootste leverancier van bedrijfssoftware kondigt de wereldrecord TPC-C 32 processor geclusterde benchmark op Linux aan die de Oracle 9i Database Release 2 met Real Application Clusters gebruikt. Het nieuwe geclusterde wereldrecord resultaat bereikte 138,362.025 tpmC en een prijsprestatie van $17.21/tpmC draaiend op een acht-node cluster met Intel Pentium III Xeon processoren en Red Hat Linux Advanced Server software. Met identieke processoren en dezelfde hoeveelheid memory per CPU in een 32-processor clusterconfiguratie, overtrof Oracle’s database op Linux Microsoft SQL Server 2000's beste resultaat in deze categorie met maar liefst 14 procent.
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ORACLE DELIVERS WORLD RECORD TPC-C BENCHMARK ON LINUX
Outperforms Microsoft SQL server by 14% on identical processors
September 17, 2002 - Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced the world record TPC-C 32-processor clustered benchmark on Linux using Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Real Application Clusters. The new clustered world record result achieved 138,362.025 tpmC and a price performance of $17.21/tpmC running on an eight-node cluster with Intel Pentium III Xeon Processors and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server software. Using the identical processors and the same amount of memory per CPU in a 32-processor cluster configuration, Oracle’s database on Linux outperformed Microsoft SQL Server 2000’s best result in this category by 14 percent . Oracle is now the TPC-C 32-processor cluster performance and price performance leader on both Linux and Windows 2000 Advanced Server. 1, 2
Oracle has a long history of benchmark performance World Records. This result adds the first Linux TPC-C Cluster to that record, demonstrating Oracle9i Real Application Clusters' ability to deliver excellent enterprise-class performance – now in a Linux environment – without compromising the availability, reliability, and security that customers expect from real-world applications.
The TPC-C is an OLTP (online transaction processing) benchmark developed by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). The TPC-C benchmark defines a rigorous standard for calculating performance and price/performance measured by transaction per minute (tpmC) and $/tpmC, respectively.
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1. As of September 16, 2002: HP ProLiant DL580R, with 32 Intel Pentium III 900 MHz processors, Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Real Application Clusters on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, 138,362.025, $17.21/tpmC, available 03/05/03.
2. As of September 16, 2002: HP ProLiant DL580R, with 32 Intel Pentium III 900 MHz processors, Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Real Application Clusters on Windows 2000 Advanced Server, 137,260.89 tpmC, $18.46/tpmC, available 6/4/02.
3. As of September 16, 2002: IBM eServer xSeries 370 with 32 Intel Pentium III 900 MHz processors, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2000 Advanced Server, 121,319.23 tpmC, $18.97 tpmC, available 5/31/01. Source: Transaction Processing Council (TPC), http://www.tpc.org
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