Re: New IBM Nonsense

DA Morgan wrote:
> Someone else is going to do it soon or later so I'll beat them to it.
>
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/benchmarks/111704.html
>
> And if you believe what you just read ... take a good look at the
small
> print at the bottom of the page.

Why wouldn't you believe what was just read? They are industry standard benchmarks and the full disclosure of the result are available at www.tpc.org

>
> DB2 was run on:
> DB2 UDB on IBM eServer p595 (64-way Power5 1.9GHz):
> DB2 UDB on IBM eServer p570 16P (16-way Power5 1.9GHz)

There is a TPC-C result running on identical Power5 hardware (8 way p5 570). You can check it out at www.tpc.org. It shows DB2 result is ~430k and Oracle is at ~370k tansactions /minute. DB2 significantly faster.

>
> While Oracle was run on:
> HP Integrity rx5670 Cluster 64P (16 x 4-way Intel Itanium2 6M 1.5GHz)
> Unisys ES7000 Aries 420 Ent. Server (16-way Intel Itanium2 1.5GHz)
>
> Wow ... I guess IBM is saying a Power5 at 1.9GHz is equivalent to an
> Itanium2 at 1.5GHz: I don't think so.

Yep Power5 hardware is much much faster than Itanium 2s. If IBM were to run Oracle on a 64 way Power5 box, the result would be much closer (but still below) to the 3.2million results from DB2, although I doubt they ever would.

And the results they quoted are the highest results ever recorded with the Oracle database.

>
> Only one citation is for identical hardware and there isn't enough
> information to make a comparison meaningful. I'm thinking IBM is
afraid
> of a true head-to-head comparison or they wouldn't have had to stoop
so
> low.

I already cited a head to head result. DB2 was faster.

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> University of Washington
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Received on Sat Jan 22 2005 - 04:30:26 CST