ORCL: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Sets New Industry World Record with TPC-C Benchmark

Today Oracle announced a new world record with a TPC-C benchmark result of more than 4 million transactions per minute. The result was achieved with Oracle® Database 10g Release 2 on an HP Integrity Superdome server running HP-UX 11i v3 and HP StorageWorks Arrays(1). With this result, Oracle showcases its superior transaction processing power -- setting a new industry record that surpasses the best TPC-C performance results on any database including IBM DB2(2), and becoming the overall performance leader in both TPC-C clustered(3) and non-clustered categories.
Running on an HP Integrity Superdome server with 64 Dual Core Intel® Itanium® 2 1.6 GHz processors and the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition achieved a record 4,092,799 tpmC (transactions per minute) with a price-performance ratio of $2.93/tpmC, the best price per transaction of any result over 4 hundred thousand transactions per minute.

"As business demand for increased transaction throughput continues to grow, customers rely on Oracle Database 10g to seamlessly scale their systems accordingly," said Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President Systems Technology, Oracle. "This benchmark demonstrates that Oracle Database 10g continues to raise the bar with record performance achievement for OLTP systems."

Oracle Database 10g provides a single, integrated database engine for cost-effective, scalable and high-performing online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing implementations. Oracle's latest benchmark builds upon its extensive history of providing world-class performance, availability and security for today's intense OLTP systems.

About TPC-C
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 transactions per minute (tpmC) and $/tpmC, respectively.

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.



For more information on TPC-C benchmarks, please visit www.tpc.org. TPC is a registered trademark by the Transaction Processing Council.
Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), http://www.tpc.org


As of February 27, 2007:
(1) HP Integrity Enterprise Superdome server, 4,092,799 tpmC (64 processors/128 cores/256 threads), $2.93/tpmC, available 08/23/07.
(2) IBM System P5 595, 4,033,378 tpmC, (32 processors/64 cores/128 threads), $2.97/tpmC, available 1/22/07.
(3) HP Integrity rx5670 Cluster, 1,184,893 tpmC, (64 processors/64 cores/64 threads), $5.52/tpmC, available 4/30/04.