Oracle and IBM recently established a new performance record. Using Oracle`s flagship Oracle8 database and IBM`s TXSeries, RS/6000 SP and Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) disk subsystems, the companies established a world record for both the number of transactions per minute and the number of concurrent users Performing transactions on the system. Oracle and IBM produced a combined solution that realised the highest-ever transaction throughput metric of 57,053.8 tpmC-57, 053 New-Order transactions per minute-with 57,000 simultaneous users performing transactions on the system. This standard Transaction Processing Council (TPC) C benchmark simulates a high-transaction customer scenario. It measures maximum sustained system performance by assessing the number of new-order transactions per minute while the system simultaneously executes four other transaction types-payment, order-status, delivery and stock-level. All five TPC-C transactions have rigorous user response time requirements. "Thousands of customers worldwide depend on TXSeries to support large, complex transactional applications," said Alfred Z. Spector, general manager, Transaction Systems, IBM. "This benchmark demonstrates how TXSeries can grow with customers as their business applications continue to evolve." "This TPC-C benchmark clearly demonstrates the superior scalability and performance of Oracle8 and the Oracle Parallel Server option, further extending Oracle`s lead in the High-end OLTP space," said Wendy Jeansonne, vice president of IBM Products Division at Oracle. "The combination of Oracle8, TXSeries and RS/6000 SP provides our customers a compelling high availability solution for OLTP systems." Many of the world`s most prominent companies rely on the RS/6000 SP to perform the behind-the-scenes transactions that are central to their business goals," said Brian Sweeney, vice president, Enterprise Servers, IBM RS/6000. "This new benchmark data further demonstrates that Oracle onRS/6000 SP offers customers the performance and reliability they demand for these mission-critical applications." The benchmark environment used was Oracle8 with the Parallel Server Option running on a 12-node IBM RS/6000 SP with Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) disk drives. The large user population connected to the Oracle database through IBM`s TXSeries. Oracle8 Enterprise Edition is Oracle`s flagship database product designed for the enterprise market. The Oracle Parallel Server option expands the capabilities of Oracle8 to provide high availability by supporting simultaneous access to a single database from multiple nodes of a clustered or massively parallel processing (MPP) platform. TXSeries is IBM`s strategic middleware offering for UNIX and Windows NT platforms providing highly scalable, secure transaction processing for mission-critical solutions. There are thousands of applications worldwide in the finance, retail, manufacturing, transportation and telecommunications industries that rely on the transaction processing capabilities of TXSeries. RS/6000 SP systems are installed at over 4,000 sites around the world, helping IBM customers solve their critical business problems. Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. Fortune 100 companies have selected the RS/6000 SP for such demanding applications as on-line transaction processing, data warehousing, enterprise resource planning and server consolidation. The Transaction Processing Performance Council is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarking. TPC benchmarks can be run by any company based on a published Standard. The benchmarks are audited by TPC-certified auditors. IBM, the world`s largest computer company, creates, develops and manufactures the industry`s most advanced information technologies, including networking systems, software, computing systems, storage devices and microelectronics. For Internet users, IBM offers complete information about the company, its products, services and technology on the World Wide Web.
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