PRESS RELEASE: Informix and Amdahl Set New Performance Record With TPC-B Benchmark Results
Informix and Amdahl Set New Performance Record With TPC-B Benchmark Results Menlo Park, Calif (September 28, 1993) Informix Software, Inc. (NASDQ:IFMX) and Amdahl Corporation (AMEX:AMH) today announced record "TPC-B" benchmark results for overall performance and price/performance, better than any system ever tested. The Amdahl 5995-4570M system, running the INFORMIX-OnLine database server, set a performance record of 1,116.44 transactions per second (tpsB) with a cost of ownership of $20,670 per tpsB. "This new benchmarking record reiterates Informix's position as the performance leader in RDBMS technology," said Steve Sommer, vice president of marketing at Informix. "With the INFORMIX-OnLine database and high-end computer systems such as Amdahl, customers are assured superior throughput and value." According to Mike Orr, Amdahl Open Systems acting general manager and vice president, "This benchmark demonstrates the value of Amdahl's 5995M line of Super Servers and our UTS UNIX operating system for enterprise-scale applications. The provision of industry leading performance to our established base of large-systems customers underlines our commitment to the UTS on 5995M Super Servers. "With our recently announced new offerings for the server market, we intend to continue delivering high-capacity, high-availability, and high-performance open systems to meet the needs of today's customers for scalable and distributed environments," Orr added. The TPC-B benchmark was developed by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) of Los Altos, California. The TPC is a consortium of leading manufacturers and users dedicated to the development of objective, industry-wide performance benchmark specifications for commercial online transaction processing (OLTP). The TPC-B benchmark specification is designed to test the stress load of a database through a single transaction type. The simple repeatable unit of work tests the database system's basic components such as disk input/output, moderate system and application execution time and transaction integrity. About Amdahl Super Servers and UTS The 5995M line of mainframe computers is the latest series of general-purpose, high-performance processors developed, manufactured, sold and serviced by Amdahl. Amdahl's UTS system is a commercial, System V based, UNIX operating system for mission-critical mainframe applications offering enhanced availability, scalability, reliability, security, and serviceability on large-scale servers, important for enterprise-wide applications. About INFORMIX-OnLine INFORMIX-OnLine is a high-performance on-line transaction processing (OLTP) database server that provides high availability, data integrity, and multimedia data management capabilities. Features of INFORMIX-OnLine include stored procedures, which can reduce message traffic in a client/server environment; ANSI SQL-89-compliant declarative integrity constraints, which bring added security to a database by enforcing a set of safety checks on all applications accessing the data; and distributed updates with two-phase commit recovery. INFORMIX-OnLine supports Informix's entire line of SQL-based application development tools as well as a large number of third-party application development tools and runs on a wide range of UNIX-based computer systems in stand-alone or networked environments. Availability INFORMIX-OnLine is currently available from Informix Software. The 5995M processors and UTS operating system are offered by Amdahl Corporation. About Amdahl Amdahl is a major supplier of powerful mainframe computers, data storage subsystems, SPARC mid-range servers, UNIX system software, applications development and production software, and a wide range of educational and consulting services. With sales last year of more than $2 billion, Amdahl's products and services are available in more than 25 countries for use in both System/390-compatible and open systems computing environments. Amdahl is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. About Informix Informix Software, Inc., provides the most complete and productive database technology to build, deploy, run and evolve applications. Informix products include powerful distributed database management systems, robust application development tools, and graphical- and character-based productivity software for delivering information to every significant desktop platform. With corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Informix has European headquarters in London and Asia/Pacific headquarters in Singapore. ### -- -- -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% William Daul Advanced Support INFORMIX SOFTWARE INC. 4100 Bohannon Dr. (415) 926-6488 - wk Menlo Park, CA. 94025 uunet!infmx!billd or billd@informix.com