Thursday, 19. June 2008
Oracle Database 11g Reaches 97,083 Transactions Per Minute
Oracle recently announced that it has set a new world record TPC-C benchmark for Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on Windows, achieving 97,083 transactions per minute with a price/performance of USD .68/tpmC.
According to Oracle, Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on a Windows-based Dell PowerEdge 2900 server with one Intel Quad-Core Xeon 2.66 GHz processor, delivered the best price-per-transaction- per-minute ever achieved with the TPC-C benchmark.
The company further claims that Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One is an affordable, full-featured database for servers with up to two sockets. It provides enterprise-class performance and security, is simple to manage, and is upwardly compatible – allowing it to easily scale as a customers demand increases.
“This benchmark result further demonstrates that Oracle can deliver unparalleled performance at an affordable price, regardless of a customer’s choice of operating system,” said Sushil Kumar, senior director, Database Availability, Manageability and Performance Product Management, Oracle.