Oracle7/Sun TPC-A Benchmark results

Yes, it is a press release, but I've received many many emails asking for benchmark results lately. I'll post these as they come in. Expect a whole series of benchmarks of Oracle7 to come in over the next few weeks. 1080 Users !!! Cool.

• Dan

          ORACLE REPORTS HIGHEST SUN TPC-A BENCHMARK RESULTS           First Performance Results for ORACLE7 Top 107 tpsA

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., June 11, 1992 -- Oracle Corporation today announced it has achieved the highest ever Transaction Processing Council Benchmark A
(TPC-A local) result among database vendors running on a Sun SPARCserver
690MP. This benchmark test - which resulted in 107.28 transactions per second
(tpsA) - is the first performance figure reported for Oracle's upcoming
relational database management system (RDBMS) release, ORACLE7.

        "This announcement marks the initial efforts of a long-term, joint development project between Oracle and Sun," said James Sha, vice president of Oracle's UNIX Products Division. "We have been working very closely with Sun over the last several months porting and optimizing ORACLE7 for the SPARC architecture. The on-going performance work will continue to enhance performance by exploiting Solaris 2.0 features and the recently introduced SuperSPARC-based SPARCserver family."

        "These latest performance results clearly demonstrate that the Sun SPARCserver multiprocessing architecture running ORACLE7 has the commercial strength and OLTP performance required for downsizing mainframe applications to distributed client-server environments," said Bruce Golden, senior director of Commercial Markets Development at Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. "The open solutions provided by Sun and Oracle also provide excellent connectivity to existing legacy systems."

        The ORACLE7 TPC-A test on the Sun SPARCserver 690MP simulated a system environment with 1080 online users accessing over 20 gigabytes of data. Total system cost, including hardware, software, and five years of maintenance came to $1,352,118 or $12,604 per tpsA. ORACLE7 results were achieved through a combination of new features, including the capabilities of PL/SQL procedures executing within the RDBMS, hashed clustered indexes, and architectural enhancements that reduced CPU and memory utilization.

About Oracle

        Oracle Corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., is the largest supplier of DBMS software and the third largest software and services company in the world.

        Oracle develops and markets an integrated line of software products for database management, computer aided systems engineering (CASE), applications development, decision support and office automation, as well as families of financial, government financial, human resource and manufacturing applications.  Oracle products are available on PCs, minicomputers and mainframes, and ORACLE is the first and only open relational database to run on massively parallel supercomputers.

        The company offers its products, along with related consulting, education and support services, in 92 countries around the world. Oracle is a publicly held corporation whose shares are traded on NASDAQ/NMS with the ticker symbol ORCL.

        For further information about Oracle, call Oracle corporate headquarters at 415/506-7000, or write to Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Box 659509, Redwood Shores, CA 94065.

• Dan

Daniel Druker
Senior Consultant
Oracle Corporation                    

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Disclaimer: These are my opinions and mine alone, and don't reflect the views or position of my employer. Received on Fri Jun 12 1992 - 21:55:45 CEST