Sybase has announced record benchmark results for its flagship database management system, Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5, beating Oracle with 95% more throughput at under a third of the cost. The benchmark demonstrates Sybase's price/performance for Unix-based systems, as measured by the Transaction Process Performance Council's TPC-C results. These results were accomplished on the recently announced rp8400 server from Hewlett-Packard.
ASE 12.5 achieved 140 239,97 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance ratio of $16,31/tpmC using a 16-processor HP server system. It surpassed Oracle's 16-processor benchmark of 71 863 tpmC at a cost of $52,42 per tpmC.
"These benchmark results demonstrate Sybase's technology leadership in the database market and our dedication to delivering solutions at a lower cost," says Sybase SA marketing manager Julie Tomlinson. "Sybase is continuing to deploy database management systems that provide a cost-effective platform to handle intense, Web-based transaction processing."
As an online transaction processing (OLTP) system benchmark, TPC-C simulates a complete environment where a population of terminal operators execute transactions against a database. The benchmark is centred on the principal activities of an order-entry environment, including entering and delivering orders, recording payments, checking the status of orders and monitoring the level of stock at warehouses.
"Sybase's ASE 12.5 supports the heavy data processing needs of traditional OLTP and the complex data manipulation needs of decision support systems, while providing the flexibility, scalability, performance and security needed to support new, e-business applications," adds Tomlinson.
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