REDWOOD SHORES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Sep 04, 2009 -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)
News Facts
- Today, Oracle announced a world-record result for a two-processor system on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark running the SAP enhancement package 4 (Unicode) for the SAP ERP 6.0 application(1).
- On a system configuration comprised of a Sun Fire™ X4270 server equipped with two new Intel® Xeon® x5570, quad-core (2 processor/8 cores/16 threads), 2.93 GHz processors, Oracle Database running on the Solaris™ 10 Operating System achieved 3,800 SAP SD Benchmark users.
- Additionally, this result delivers more performance per processor and per core on the SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark running enhancement package 4 (Unicode) for the SAP ERP 6.0 application and outperforms the best results from IBM DB2(2) and Microsoft SQL Server(3) with this benchmark, utilizing the same number of cores.
- The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark measures the system performance to process dialog steps and order line item postings per hour for SAP solution-based transactions. A transaction consists of a full business process that captures activities from the full order processing cycle from order creation to delivery to invoicing.
Supporting Quote
- "Oracle continues to outpace the competition and provide customers with industry-leading performance in demanding enterprise application benchmarks, like the SAP SD Benchmark," said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. "This result demonstrates that Oracle delivers stellar performance, not just for high-end systems(4), but also in the high volume dual-processor server segment."
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As of September 3, 2009. Source: SAP, www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1) The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark performed on August 11, 2009 by Sun Microsystems in Walldorf, Germany, has been certified with the following data: Number of SAP SD Benchmark users: 3,800 (1,900 SAP SD Benchmark users per processor, 475 SAP SD Benchmark users per core). Average dialog response time: 0.86 seconds. Fully processed order line items/hour: 420,000. Dialog steps/hour: 1,260,000. SAPS: 21,000. Average database request time (dialog/update): 0.005 sec / 0.010 sec. CPU utilization of central server: 99%. Operating system, central server: Solaris 10. RDBMS: Oracle 10g. SAP Business Suite software: SAP enhancement package 4 (Unicode) for SAP ERP 6.0. Configuration, central server: Sun Fire X4270, 2 processors/8 cores/16 threads, Intel Xeon Processor X5570, 2.93 GHz, 64 KB L1 cache and 256 KB L2 cache per core 8 MB L3 cache per processor, 48 GB main memory. SAP certification number 2009033.
(2) The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark performed on June 1, 2009, by IBM in Beaverton, OR, USA, was certified on June 16, 2009 with the following data: Number of SAP SD Benchmark users: 3,752 (938 SAP SD Benchmark users per processor, 469 SAP SD Benchmark users per core). Average dialog response time: 0.97 seconds. Fully processed line items/hour: 410,330. Dialog steps/hour: 1,231,000. SAPS: 20,520. Average database request time (dialog/update): 0.013 sec / 0.016 sec. CPU utilization of central server: 99%. Operating system, central server: AIX 6.1. RDBMS: DB2 9.5. SAP Business Suite software: SAP enhancement package 4 (Unicode) for SAP ERP 6.0. Configuration, central server: IBM System 550, 4 processors/8 cores/16 threads, POWER6, 5.0GHz, 128 KB L1 cache and 4 MB L2 cache per core, 32 MB L3 cache per processor, 64 GB main memory. SAP certification number 2009023.
(3) The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark performed on July 25, 2009 by HP in Houston, TX, USA, was certified on August 4, 2009, with the following data: Number of SAP SD Benchmark users: 3,415 (1,708 SD Benchmark users per processor, 427 SAP SD Benchmark users per core). Average dialog response time: 0.98 seconds. Fully processed line items per hour: 373,330. Dialog steps/hour: 1,120,000. SAPS: 18,670. Average database request time (dialog/update): 0.018 sec / 0.020 sec. CPU utilization of central server: 99%. Operating system, central server: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. RDBMS: SQL Server 2008. SAP Business Suite software: SAP enhancement package 4 (Unicode) for SAP ERP 6.0. Configuration, central server: HP ProLiant BL460c G6, 2 processors/8 cores/16 threads, Intel Xeon Processor x5570, 2.93 GHz, 64 KB L1 cache and 256 KB L2 cache per core, 8 MB L3 cache per processor, 48 GB main memory. SAP certification number 2009031.
(4) The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark performed on June 28, 2008 by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu has been certified with the following data: 39,100 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.94 seconds average dialog response time, 3,931,330 fully processed order line items per hour, 11,794,000 dialog steps per hour, 196,570 SAPS. Server configuration: SPARC Enterprise Server M9000, 64 processors/256 cores/512 threads, SPARC 64 VII, 2.52 GHZ, 64 KB (D) + 64 KB (1) L1 cache per core, 6 MB L2 cache per processor, 1024 GB main memory, running Solaris 10, Oracle Database 10g and SAP ERP 6.0. SAP certification number 2008042.
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