Arbor Essbase has obliterated all records for the industry standard OLAP council APB-1 OLAP benchmark. In a benchmark conducted in March, Arbor Essbase completed the entire OLAP benchmark in just 49 minutes. Oracle Express was six times slower, requiring four hours and 54 minutes to finish the benchmark. Arbor Essbase earned an AQM (analytical queries per minute) rating of 5 293, nearly three times higher than the Oracle Express AQM rating of 1 946. Both the Arbor Essbase and Oracle Express benchmarks were run on identical servers connected via identical networks to identical clients, and were audited by the same OLAP Council certified benchmark auditor. Highlights * Arbor Essbase completed the entire benchmark nearly two hours before Oracle Express finished the bulk load and calculation and more than three hours before Oracle Express finished the incremental load and calculation. * Arbor Essbase was nearly twenty times faster than Oracle Express for loading and calculating data. * Arbor Essbase required 130-times fewer lines of code than Oracle Express to implement the benchmark - Arbor Essbase required nine lines of code to implement the benchmark; Oracle Express required 1 176 lines. * Arbor Essbase used seven times less disk space than Oracle Express to store the same data. Oracle Express exploded the raw data provided by the OLAP council by a factor of 86. * Arbor Essbase used a single 4,2GB disk drive to implement the benchmark, whereas Oracle Express used more than 23GB of storage including a 16,8GB RAID-0 disk array. Arbor Essbase was also judged "Recommended OLAP Server" by National Software Testing Laboratories and rated highest Overall and for Usability, Versatility, Ease of Use and Ease of Learning. To learn more about this OLAP Council benchmark, visit www.arborsoft.com; or the OLAP Council web site.
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