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Oracle Database 11g R2, Oracle Real Application Clusters Set New World Record
Result Achieved on SAP for Utilities Standard Application Benchmark
June 6, 2012,
Volume 172, Issue 1

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters have set a new world record on the [url "SAP for Utilities standard application benchmark."] Throughput of the benchmark for SAP for Utilities solutions is measured in utilities reference customers (URCs) per hour. A URC consists of one business partner with one contract account and one contract. In this benchmark Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with Oracle Real Application Clusters running on a 2-node Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S6 with Linux, each node with two Six-Core Intel Xeon processors X5690 3.46GHz processors, delivered a record result of 590,035 URCs per hour - the highest score ever posted on the SAP for Utilities standard application benchmark, according to Oracle. Tested in both one-node and two-node configurations, Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters demonstrated near perfect scalability of 1.98 by delivering 298,644 and 590,035 URCs per hour respectively, while demonstrating outstanding performance and high availability, Oracle reports.

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