Oracle Corporation and Compaq Computer Corporation announced a new TPC-C world record for Windows NT on a 6 node cluster of Compaq ProLiant 6500 servers running the Oracle8 Database Server with the Oracle Parallel Server option. This result represents the best performance ever achieved on the Windows NT operating system and the first and only benchmark released on a scalable, highly available cluster database configuration on Windows NT. "With this benchmark, Compaq and Oracle again demonstrate the power and cost-effectiveness of delivering scalable, clustered solutions with industry-standard servers running Microsoft Windows NT," said David Rodgers, vice president, Database and Business Applications Solutions, Compaq Computer Corporation. "Our combined technologies provide a clear business advantage for our customers by offering optimised clustering solutions for their most data-intensive, twenty-four-by-seven needs." This benchmark result was achieved on a six-node cluster of four-processor Compaq ProLiant 6500 servers running Oracle8 on Windows NT 4.0. The TPC-C audited benchmark of 27,383.40 tpmC at $71.50 per tpmC is the best-ever OLTP performance result on Windows NT, and is nearly 70% better performance than the next-best result. It also delivers the lowest price point for a highly available clustered system. Further, because Oracle8 with the Oracle Parallel Server option is currently the only parallel database in production that can scale beyond a single node on Windows NT, no other database vendor can offer a similar clustered result on Windows NT. "Oracle has held the world record TPC-C performance across all platforms for all but 23 of the past 730 days reinforcing Oracle`s position as the most robust and high performance data server for transaction processing from the workgroup to the enterprise," said James Trinder product manager NT, Oracle South Africa. "This new result with Compaq demonstrates our mutual commitment to insure our customers can run their OLTP applications on Windows NT with the highest available performance and the lowest available cost of ownership using our platforms." This outstanding track record of performance is one of the reasons Oracle holds the leading market share in the open database market across all operating systems including Windows NT where the market share was 41% in 1997*. Due to its technology leadership and close relationship with Oracle, Compaq is at the top of the list for Oracle on NT customers with 45% of Oracle database installations in the United States running on Compaq ProLiant Servers. Oracle is also the database of choice for more than 70% of leading packaged applications implementations such as SAP. The performance leadership Compaq and Oracle demonstrated with the cluster benchmark is also evident in their world record SAP benchmark result on Windows NT. In February, 1998, Compaq and Oracle delivered a result of 1,359 Sales & Distribution users on the SAP Standard Sales and Distribution Benchmark (SD Benchmark) with average response time of 1.9 seconds. This represents the best per processor scalability ever achieved on an Intel-based system as well as the best 4-processor performance ever achieved on Windows NT. The configuration was comprised of a four-processor Compaq ProLiant 5500 as the database server and 13 ProLiant 5500`s as application servers running SAP R/3 v3.1H on Windows NT Server 4.0 and Oracle Database Server. As an OLTP system benchmark, TPC-C simulates a complete computing environment with a population of terminal operators executing transactions against a database. The benchmark is centered around the principal activities of an order-entry environment, and includes a diverse spectrum of transactions ranging from entering and delivering orders to recording payments and monitoring stock levels. The TPC-C is not designed to portray the activity of a particular business segment, but rather to represent any industry that must manage, sell or distribute a product or service. For more information about TPC benchmarks and results, please refer to the Transaction Performance Council Web site at (URL) http://www.tpc.org
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