Re: DB2 Crushes Oracle RAC on TPC-C benchmark

Mark A wrote:

> DB2 UDB V8.2, eServer p595, and TotalStorage FASt900 published an amazing
> TPC-C result of 3,210,540 tpmC at a price/performance of $5.19/tpmC,
> demonstrating 2.7x better performance than Oracle RAC. Never before has any
> database vendor taken such a decisive leadership position in this benchmark.
> In fact, this new DB2 result leads the previous record by a margin wider
> than the top results of Oracle and Microsoft combined!
>
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/benchmarks/111704.html

What a laugh. Look at the small print at the bottom of the page:

DB2 UDB on IBM eServer p595 (64-way Power5 1.9GHz)

Oracle RAC 10g on HP Integrity rx5670 Cluster 64P (16 x 4-way Intel Itanium2 6M 1.5GHz)

Is this a comparison of the database products DB2 UDB against Oracle or the p595 chips at 1.9GHz against the inferior Itanium2 1.5GHz chips.

If IBM has to bend over this far to be faster it deserves to be kicked in the posterior with a boot.

Shame on IBM for such pathetic nonsense. Shame on you for posting it.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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