Sybase's EAServer has achieved record-breaking price-performance results, surpassing BEA, IBM, Oracle and all other application servers on a single node configuration in the independent ECperf benchmark. ECperf is the industry standard benchmark that measures the scalability and performance of application servers and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE).
The Sybase EAServer was demonstrated to be significantly faster and more cost-effective than the nearest competitor BEA, with greater performance and a lower price per standard unit of work.
"Against any competitor, Sybase EAServer wins hands down in terms of both processing power and client value," says Julie Tomlinson, sales and marketing manager at Sybase SA. "These independent benchmark numbers prove what our customers have known all along - that it takes less hardware to power Sybase EAServer than BEA or Oracle. Also, Sybase delivers that power, speed and value with the greatest degree of openness and flexibility in the industry."
The independent benchmark results reveal that Sybase EAServer can process 8286.73 BBops/min@STD at $6/Bbops/min@STD. The closest competitor in a centralised environment, BEA System, a global application infrastructure company, achieved only 7539.90 BBops/min@STD at $7/BBops/min@STD for an identical hardware configuration.
"As businesses increasingly rely on Web-enabled information and transaction-intensive applications for inventory/order management, supply chain automation and other mission critical functions, the bar is set ever higher for infrastructure that delivers affordable, cost-effective performance," says Thomas Murphy, senior programme director with META Group. "The ECperf benchmark provides customers with a guideline of relative server performance and best practices for application server configuration."
The ECperf benchmark simulates actual business conditions in a Fortune 500 company, helping potential buyers understand how application servers perform demanding functions like supply chain or order/inventory management. It is specifically designed to test the performance of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) for the development of portable, scalable, multi-tier business applications. ECperf stresses the ability of application servers to handle the complexities of large Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) services, including distributed transactions, interfaces to legacy applications, secure transmissions, and object persistence.
"Sybase consistently demonstrates affordable results from high-end clusters to everyday hardware servers," says Bob Glass, a senior analyst with TRW Systems. "We selected EAServer for the US Department of Defence because it was the only application server that could reliably and securely handle the extraordinarily high volume of data processing required in the middle tier."
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