ORCL: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Sets World Record TPC-H 10 Terabyte Non-Clustered Benchmark Result on HP Integrity Superdome Server

Oracle today announced a new world record TPC-H 10 Terabyte (TB) benchmark result for Oracle® Database 10g Release 2(1), representing the fastest performance result for a non-clustered configuration and the best price-performance overall with this benchmark. Along with this achievement, Oracle also holds world record performance results for the Three TB(2), One TB(3) and 300 Gigabyte(4) TPC-H scale factors, showcasing the company's superior data warehousing capabilities.
Running on an HP Integrity Superdome server with 64 Dual-Core Intel® Itanium®2 1.6 GHz processors using the HP-UX 11i operating environment, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 achieved a world record non-clustered performance of 171,380 QphH@10000GB with a price-performance ratio of $38.98/QphH@10000GB.

"Customers continue to strive for better business intelligence to stay competitive, which requires exceptional performance from their databases to process increasingly complex queries," said Richard Sarwal, vice president of Server Performance at Oracle. "Oracle devotes significant resources to continuously grow its leadership in providing superior performance with Oracle Database 10g."

As the leading database for large data warehouses and business intelligence systems, Oracle Database 10g provides a fast, reliable and scalable server engine to help customers improve business performance, refine market strategies and identify opportunities to reduce costs. This new benchmark illustrates the advantages that lead customers to Oracle to run very large databases.

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 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


As of December 12, 2006: Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), www.tpc.org


(1) HP Integrity Superdome server with 64 Dual-Core Intel® Itanium®2 1.6 GHz processors running the HP-UX 11i operating environment and Oracle Database 10g Release 2 171,380 QphH@10000GB $38.98/QphH@10000GB, available 4/01/07.

(2) HP BladeSystem, BL25p Cluster running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition with Partitioning, 110,576 QphH@3000GB, $37.80/QphH@3000GB, available 6/8/06. (TPC-H 3000GB World Record Performance Result)

(3) HP Integrity Superdome server with 64 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 1.6 GHz processors running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition with Partitioning, 68101 QphH@1000GB, $59.00/QpH@1000GB, available 1/18/06. (TPC-H 1000GB World Record Performance Result)

(4) Dell PowerEdge 6800 running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition with Partitioning, 18,881 @QphH@300GB, $24.37/QphH@300GB, available 4/24/06. (TPC-H 300GB World Record Performance Result)