Bull and Oracle Achieve Record-Setting TPC-H Data Warehousing Benchmark

Strategic Insights -

Bull and Oracle recently announced a record-setting TPC-H one terabyte data warehousing benchmark, outperforming other systems in both performance and price. This achievement was made possible by running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on a Bull NovaScale 5160 server with 16 Intel Itanium 2 1.6 GHz processors and the Windows Server 2003 operating system. The results showcase the exceptional performance of Oracle Database 10g, particularly its ability to handle large-scale data warehousing and transaction processing requirements.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Bull NovaScale 5160 server, running Oracle Database 10g Release 2, achieved a record performance of 15,069/QphH@1000GB with a price-performance ratio of $44.33/QphH@1000GB.
  • This result outperformed the previously announced best performing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 TPC-H one-terabyte result for a 16 processor system on Windows.
  • Oracle Automatic Storage Management, a feature of Oracle Database 10g, delivered the performance of raw asynchronous I/O with the ease of management of a file system.
  • The benchmark adds to the extensive list of Oracle Database 10g performance world records, including world record TPC-H benchmarks in the larger scale factor categories – three and ten terabytes.
  • Oracle Database 10g provides a single, integrated database engine for scalable and high-performing data warehousing implementations.
  • The Bull NovaScale 5160 server, together with Oracle Database 10g, is an ideal platform for high-performing data warehouse applications, particularly in the public, banking, finance, telecommunication, and manufacturing sectors.

Statistics:

  • 15,069/QphH@1000GB: the record performance achieved by the Bull NovaScale 5160 server running Oracle Database 10g Release 2.
  • $44.33/QphH@1000GB: the price-performance ratio of the Bull NovaScale 5160 server running Oracle Database 10g Release 2.
  • 16 Intel Itanium 2 1.6 GHz processors: the number of processors in the Bull NovaScale 5160 server.
  • Windows Server 2003: the operating system used in the benchmark.
  • Oracle Database 10g Release 2: the database software used to achieve the record performance.
  • 12 March 2005: the date the performance results were announced.

Sources:

  • Transaction Processing Council (TPC)
  • Bull's Press Release
  • Oracle's Web site (www.oracle.com)
  • TPC's Web site (www.tpc.org)
  • Bull's Web site (www.bull.com)