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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/19805.html <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/19805.html>
Compaq Alpha box steals 9i benchmark laurels
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 19/06/2001 at 11:49 GMT
Compaq is first out of the blocks with a barnstorming
midrange benchmark for
a system running Oracle 9i.
If you've got $13 million to spare - which is a lot for
a midrange system, quite
frankly - you can get a 32-way AlphaServer GS320 to run
230,533
Benchmark C transactions per minute using Oracle 9i.
That works out as
$56.62 per transaction. The system clocked 188,000
users, and ran
Compaq's Tru64 Unix. (Which was Digital Unix, and OSF/1
before that).
Compaq's configuration also includes 16 PIIIs. The $13
million figure is for the
cost of the system over three years. The AlphaServer
itself is billed at under
half a million dollars, that's a quarter of the cost of
licensing Oracle 9i
software. As usual in these systems, storage accounts
for most of the rest.
By comparison, the Unix systems to beat in the TPC-C Top
Ten include a
32way Solaris SPARC Fujitsu system, the PrimePower 2000,
which clocks
222,772 TPC-C at $51.40, making it the highest
non-clustered performer; an
IBM RS/6000 S85 'pServer' clocking 220,807 at $43.30,
and an HP 9000
Superdome clocking 197,024 at $53.77 per transaction.
The full, 234 page PDF for the AlphaServer can be found
here.
Not everyone likes to measure their hardware against the
synthetic TPC-C
benchmarks. TPC-C scores have been criticised for mixing
clustered and
non-clustered results in the same league table, and more
importantly, failing to
replicate real word application conditions.
But it's an itch no vendor seems to be able to resist
scratching. ®
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des Maritimes, MPO
E-Mail: boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca <mailto:boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
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