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.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server together with the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array system processed payroll for 500K employees using 32 payroll threads with a payroll processing result of 50.11 (time in minutes). The world-record result proved to be 92% faster than an HP rx7640 and 18% faster than the IBM z10 EC 2097-709 mainframe as measured for payroll processing tasks in the Peoplesoft Payroll 9.0 (North American) benchmark.
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A blog in the Sun BestPerf series, "Oracle Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card Accelerates Web Caching Performance," reports on a benchmarking exercise that demonstrates the excellence of the Sun F20 PCle Card as a candidate to improve performance over using HDD solutions.
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The Oracle white paper "Exadata Smart Flash Cache and the Sun Oracle Database Machine" claims that the Sun Oracle Database machine, comprising Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software and the Exadata Smart Flash Cache, is capable of meeting the extreme demands for performance and scalability required for in Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing (DW) and consolidated, mixed database workloads.
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Results of the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and X6270 blade servers are available. This benchmarking report is particularly significant, writes Giri Mandalika in his Scratchpad blog, because the workload has both online transactions and batch processes and, furthermore, it is the first time Sun has published a PeopleSoft benchmark on x64 hardware running Oracle Enterprise Linux.
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