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thu.nnguyen_at_gmail.com wrote:
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> 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.
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You may want to look at the differences in the disk environment between the two 'apples to apples' configurations. The IBM result used at least 20% more spindles than the Oracle result. It also had at least 30% more clients driving the backend. This may explain why the IBM result was 15% faster. Received on Sat Jan 22 2005 - 14:23:37 CST