Oracle reports that its SPARC Enterprise M5000 server configured with eight 2.66 GHz SPARC64 VII+ processors together with Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array storage achieved world record performance on the Unicode version of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll (N.A) 9.1 with extra large volume model benchmark using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on Oracle Solaris 10. In setting this record, the SPARC Enterprise M5000 server processed payroll payments for the 500K employees PeopleSoft Payroll 9.1 (Unicode) benchmark in 46.76 minutes compared to a previous result of 50.11 minutes for the PeopleSoft Payroll 9.0 (non-Unicode) benchmark configured with 2.53 GHz SPARC64 VII processors resulting in 7% better performance, according to the Oracle release. The SPARC Enterprise M5000 server completed the end-to-end run in 66.28 mins, 11% faster than earlier published result of 73.88 mins with Payroll 9.0 configured with 2.53 GHz SPARC64 VII processors.
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Among the recent records set by Oracle technology is the one reported in SPARC Enterprise M8000 with Oracle 11g Beats IBM POWER7 on TPC-H @1000GB Benchmark. In this instance an Oracle SPARC Enterprise M8000 server configured with SPARC64 VII+ processors, Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array storage, Oracle Solaris, and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 achieved a TPC-H performance result of 209,533 QphH@1000GB with price/performance of $10.13/QphH@1000GB, surpassing the performance of the IBM POWER7 server on the 1 TB TPC-H decision support benchmark.
The benchmark revealed that the SPARC Enterprise M8000 server delivers higher performance than the IBM Power 780 even though the SPARC VII+ processor-core is 1.6x slower than the POWER7 processor-core. The SPARC Enterprise M8000 server was found to be 27% faster than the IBM Power 780. IBM's reputed single-thread performance leadership did not provide benefit for throughput in this test.
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Entities operating in Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) environments can expect to benefit from Database Smart
Flash Cache, a feature now available on Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux that allows customers to increase the effective size of the Oracle database buffer cache without
adding more main memory to the system. According to the white paper "Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache" the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array and the Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card provide a natural fit for Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache and offer an excellent opportunity for end users to take advantage of this new functionality. Database Smart Flash Cache on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux has the potential to offer considerable benefit to users of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with disk-bound read-mostly or read-only workloads, the white paper concludes.
Running in combination, Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 servers achieved a world record on Oracle's own PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.0 benchmark. The servers were configured with SPARC64 VII+ processors along with Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array system achieved this record result using PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 software running on the Oracle Solaris 10 operating system. The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 servers were able process online users and concurrent batch jobs simultaneously in 34.72 minutes.
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Oracle currently holds the world record for the fastest database performance, which was achieved on the TPC-C benchmark using 27 SPARC T3-4 servers, 138 Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array storage systems and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Partitioning. Specifics of the TPC-C benchmark result are that the SPARC t3-4 server cluster performed 30,249,688 tpmC and $1.01 $/tpmC (USD).
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