Unmatched Technology Synergy Between Sun and Oracle
Leads To Industry's Best TPC-C Results
Bangkok--July 1--Sun Microsystems Inc
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the industry's highest TPC-C performance result of 31,147.04 transactions per minute (tpmc) at a price/performance of $109 per tpme - the best price/performance for a high-end system (one with more than 10,000 tpmc) on the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark C (TPC-C). The test was run on Sun's Ultra Enterprise 6000 server with the robust Solaris operating environment and Sun's SPARCstorage Array subsystems on the new Oracle 8 universal data server version 8.0.3. The performance result is all the more impressive in that it was achieved on a single-node SMP (symmetrical multi-processing) server, outperforming all clustered configurations. The previous record for the TPC-C was achieved on a competitor's four-node cluster requiring four separate systems.
"The record-setting Sun and Oracle 8 TPC-C result is relevant to customers deploying entreprise and Internet applications because we have now demonstrated that they can scale to large configurations capable of supporting thousands of users," said Mark Tolliver, Sun's vice president of market development. "These results also illustrate the performance our Ultra Enterprise servers can achieve without relying on clustered configurations that other vendors must use to achieve this level of performance. The bottom line is the high performance on Oracle 8 on a Sun SMP platform simplifies implementation, reduces risk, time and required investment and ongoing maintenance of the system."
Sun and Oracle Technology and Relationship Synergy Oracle 8 takes advantage of Sun technologies including Solaris 2.6 performance, Sun compliers and Sun's SPARCstorage Array subsystems. The leading TPC-C numbers are in part a result of a concerted engineering effort between Sun and Oracle to tune Solaris 2.6 and Oracle 8 to optimize throughput. The outstanding scalability of Sun's Ultra Entreprise servers and Solaris operating environment was a key factor in Oracle's decision to select Sun as a development platform for Oracle 8.
"This TPC-C result proves the economy of scale for network computing. We must anticipate customer requirements and ensure reliability and scalability in even the largest and most demanding environments," said Jerry Held, vice president of Oracle's Server Technologies. "The real advantage for customers is that the high performance of Sun's server, storage and operating system combined with Oracle 8 meet the increasing demands for large scale OLTP, data warehousing and electronic commerce environments." Oracle 8, the Database for Network Computing, manages large amounts of information securely, reliably and economically over computer networls. Oracle 8 is a versatile information platform that enables high-speed transactions, better business decisions and sophisticated object-relational applications. Buildt on a foundation of proven technology, Oracle 8 is designed to to lower an organization's computing costs, manage all types of data and deliver faster information access to all kinds of users. End.