Oracle Sets World Record TPC-H One Terabyte Clustered Benchmark Result on PANTA Systems PANTAmatrix with SilverStorm RDS

Oracle today announced a new record-setting TPC-H One Terabyte (TB) benchmark running Oracle® Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters with Linux, on PANTA Systems' PANTAmatrix platform using SilverStorm's Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS)(1)1. This is the fastest TPC-H One TB performance result for clustered environments, outperforming the best TPC-H One TB results from IBM DB2(2) and Microsoft SQL Server 2005(3) in both performance and price.
Using an 8-node PANTA Systems PANTAmatrix, each with 4 Dual-Core AMD Opteron Model 800 2.2 GHz processors running Linux, with PANTA's native InfiniBand storage and SilverStorm RDS, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters achieved a record-breaking performance of 59353.9 QphH@1000GB with a price-performance ratio of $24.94/QphH@1000GB.

"Oracle continues to set the data warehousing benchmark standard for performance in both non-clustered and clustered environments, reinforcing our commitment to providing customers the highest-performing database software," said Richard Sarwal, vice president of Server Performance at Oracle. "With partners like PANTA and SilverStorm, Oracle is able to offer customers faster performance at low cost, plus flexibility in the choice of configurations that can scale to meet all business needs."

"The PANTAmatrix platform delivers superior performance, scalability and reliability for large data warehouses through its massive I/O capacity and high performance, cost-effective scale-out storage," said Fred van den Bosch, CEO, PANTA Systems. "This benchmark proves that PANTAmatrix running Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters can easily support the most demanding environments at extremely attractive prices."

"SilverStorm products with Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters enable the highest performance, most scalable systems while consolidating networks," said Phil Murphy, executive vice president, SilverStorm Technologies. "We are very proud of this benchmark achievement and look forward to continuing our work with Oracle and PANTA Systems."

This latest benchmark adds to the extensive list of Oracle Database 10g performance world records, including world record performance benchmark results in the TPC-H 300GB(4), TPC-H Three TB(5) and TPC-H 10 TB(6) scale factor categories. As the leading database for data warehousing systems, Oracle Database 10g provides a single, integrated database engine for scalable and high performing database applications.

About TPC-H
TPC-H is a decision support benchmark consisting of a suite of business oriented ad-hoc queries and concurrent data modifications. The performance metric is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@Size) and reflects multiple aspects of the capability of the system to process queries. More information is available at http://www.tpc.org

About Oracle Database 10g
The only database designed for grid computing, Oracle Database 10g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers. Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 10g's unique ability to manage data from traditional business information to XML documents and spatial/location information makes it the ideal choice to power online transaction processing, decision support and content management applications.

About PANTA Systems
Based in Santa Clara, California, PANTA Systems was founded in 2002 to deliver a new class of system capabilities that maximize performance and reduce costs using industry-standard technologies. Supporting up to 12GB/second bandwidth per compute node and 800MB/second per storage module, the PANTAmatrix platform has the scalability and dynamic configurability to replace expensive proprietary solutions even for the most demanding applications. Customers include leading organizations in financial services, government, telecommunications, and manufacturing. For more information on PANTA?s solutions, please visit www.pantasys.com

About SilverStorm Technologies
SilverStorm Technologies is the leader in high-performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing. SilverStorm designs, manufactures and services a family of networking hardware and software products that dramatically improve cluster computing performance and scalability. For more information, visit www.silverstorm.com/oracle or contact info@silverstorm.com

About Oracle
Oracle (NasdaqGS: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com

For more information on TPC-H and TPC-C benchmarks, please visit www.tpc.org. TPC Benchmark is a registered trademark of the Transaction Processing Performance Council.

As of October 23, 2006:

Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), www.tpc.org


(1) 8-node PANTA Systems PANTAmatrix, each with 4 Dual-Core AMD Opteron Model 800 2.2 GHz processors running Linux, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters with InfiniBand and SilverStorm RDS, 59353.9 QphH@1000GB, $24.94/QpH@1000GB, available 4/15/07.

(2) IBM eServer xSeries, 64-Node Cluster, each with one Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz processor, IBM DB2 UDB 8.2, 53,451 QphH@1000GB, $32.80/QphH@1000GB, available 2/14/05.

(3) HP Integrity rx8640 with Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 1.6 GHz 33,488.1 QphH@1000GB, $27.00/QphH@1000GB, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, available 10/1/06.

(4) Dell PowerEdge 6800, 18,881 @QphH@300GB, $24.37/QphH@300GB, available 4/24/06. (TPC-H 300GB World Record Performance Result)

(5) HP BladeSystem, BL25p Cluster, 110,576 QphH@3000GB, $37.80/QphH@3000GB, available 6/8/06. (TPC-H 3000GB World Record Performance Result)

(6) Sun E25K Server, 108,099 QphH@10000GB, $53.80/QphH@10000GB, available 1/23/06. (TPC-H 10000GB Non-Clustered World Record Performance Result)