January 11th 2010
According to a recent Oracle press release, a TPC-C benchmark designed to compare OLTP performance on various hardware and software configurations has found that the Oracle Database/Sun Server and OS combination outstrips the competition.
According to Oracle, ‘Oracle Database 11g running on Sun SPARC servers with CMT technology and the Sun Solaris OS runs faster than IBM DB2 running on IBM’s flagship Power 595′.
It was also noted that, whilst achieving vastly superior performance, the Oracle/Sun system arrangement used four times less energy than the IBM DB2/Power 595 configuration.
Oracle database and Oracle Real Application Clustering technology was also benchmarked. Running the Solaris 10 operating system on a cluster of four-node Sun Blade X6270 server module nodes, Oracle Database and Oracle ‘RAC’ outperformed the previous best eight processor two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark results by 66%.
The acquisition of Sun in April of 2009 was Oracle’s attempt to combine best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems as part of an overall goal to establish themselves as the only company that could engineer an entirely integrated system to deliver optimal system performance, reliability and security.
Source: Oracle
