Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **

For an apples to apples comparison consider the following: DBMS Platform CPUs TPC-Cs Cost/Transaction ------- ----------- ------- ----------- ---------------- Sybase HP T500 12 5,600+ $390 Oracle HP T500 12 5,369 $535 Sybase and HP released these audited TPC-C numbers on October 30th, 1995. While Sybase only offers a 4%-5% improvement on the Oracle TPC-C numbers, it offers an outstanding 37% better cost per transaction! That means you get more for your money!!!!! You wanna see the Sybase DEC/numbers? Wait 2 or 3 weeks. If the HP numbers are any indication... I wonder what the ComputerWorld ads will look like next week? Francisco <my opinions are my own> In <4727g0$4pq@terminus.intermind.net> an350133@anon.penet.fi (Wow! That's fastttttttt) writes: > > REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ via First! -- Today, Oracle >Corp. announced a record-breaking TPC-C open systems benchmark, 9414 tpmC, >surpassing the existing performance record, also held by the Oracle7 database. > > >Oracle7's new record is more than two times faster than Sybase's best ever >performance and nearly three times faster than Informix's best result. > >Remarkably, Oracle delivered twice the performance of Sybase's upcoming System >11, but Oracle used only half the number of processors used by Sybase. > > Informix used even more processors than Sybase to obtain still lower >performance. This Oracle7 benchmark not only set the performance record, it >also set the all-time price/performance record for high-performance systems at >$316 per tpmC. > > "We're faster, cheaper, better. Cool. Think about it. Then buy Oracle," >said Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle's founder and CEO. > > The benchmark result dramatically demonstrates the combined power of the >Oracle 64-bit Option coupled with Digital's 64-bit UNIX and Alpha hardware >architecture. This mission-critical solution provides beyond-the-mainframe >performance at a fraction of mainframe cost, something that no other vendor >can offer. Oracle7's outstanding performance in these fully TPC compliant, >audited and publicly disclosed TPC-C benchmarks is a continuing >demonstration of Oracle's unequivocal leadership in parallel database >technology for symmetric multi-processors and massively parallel systems. > > "Because of Oracle's demonstrated linear scalability on SMP, cluster, and >MPP architectures, we fully expect even greater performance gains as the >number of CPUs and memory increase over the coming year," said Beatriz >Infante, vice president of Oracle's Open Systems Division. > > These outstanding benchmarks are a result of Oracle and Digital's close >engineering relationship, including Oracle's in-house use of Alpha systems, >which enables Oracle to provide a highly optimized database for Alpha >platforms. "For over a decade, Oracle and Digital's collaborative >engineering efforts have yielded leading-edge information solutions such as >the Digital clustering technology coupled with the Oracle Parallel Server," >said Robert Palmer, CEO, Digital Equipment Corporation. > > With its architecture designed to fully exploit the parallelism of SMP, >cluster, and MPP platforms, the Oracle7 Server is the leading open systems >database server for both on-line transaction processing and data >warehousing. Oracle7 scales to dozens or hundreds of processors, with >single production databases serving thousands of users and storing hundreds >of gigabytes of data. > > Enterprise-strength Oracle7 capabilities include industry-leading parallel >query, load, and indexing along with unique functionality such as Oracle >Parallel Server for clusters, "update-anywhere" replication, and support for >"compute anywhere" wireless computing through Oracle Mobile Agents. > > "The market's acceptance of Oracle's technology lead has accelerated over >the last year and has fueled the migration of customer applications and >third-party products to Oracle7 from other database products," said Jerry >Baker, senior vice president of Oracle's Product and Platform Technologies >Division. "This benchmark result confirms what our customers already know- >Oracle7 is the only choice for mission-critical open-systems information >management." > > Oracle's result of 9414 tpmC at $316 per tpmC on an 8-processor Digital >AlphaServer 8400 compares with the Sybase System 11 result of 4544 tpmC at >$396 per tpmC recorded on a 16-processor SUN SPARCcenter 2000E and the >Informix result of 3524 tpmC at $495 per tpmC, recorded on a 20-processor >Sun SPARCcenter 2000E. In addition, Oracle's price/performance of $316 per >tpmC is superior to that offered on any high-performance system, e.g. >systems delivering more than 2,500 tpmC. > > Oracle Corp., a $3 billion company, is the world's largest supplier of >software for information management, and the world's second largest software >company. The company offers its database, tools and application products >along with related consulting, education and support services, in more than >90 countries around the world. > > For more information about Oracle, please call (415) 506-7000. Oracle's >World Wide Web address is http://www.oracle.com/. > > NOTE: Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Oracle7, >Oracle Mobile Agents, Oracle Parallel Server and Oracle 64-bit Option are >trademarks of Oracle Corporation. All other product or company names >mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks >of their respective owners. >