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New Price-Performance Mark on TPC-H Benchmark

A recent TPC-H benchmarking exercise at the 300GB scale factor involving Windows running on the Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server resulted in 2.80 $/QphH@300GB (USD) price-performance. The benchmarking employed Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 Enterprise database along with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system. Similar benchmarking results were obtained for the HP DL785 and the IBM x3950 M2. This result is 14% better price performance than the HP DL785 result.

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Bests HP Superdome Mark

A recent TPC-H benchmark produced the impressive performance and price-performance result of 1,050,556.20 QphH @30000GB with a price performance of $2.86/QphH @30000GB for a Sun/ParAccel cluster of 43 Sun Fire X4540 servers, each equipped with two AMD Opteron 2356 2.3 GHz processors, running ParAccel Analytic Database on Sun OpenSolaris 2009.06, reports blogger Guido Ficco on Sun’s BestPerf site.

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Record-breaking Results Prove Sun Fire x64 Servers Offer Business Benefits

New world record results have been set by Sun’s x64 servers on VMmark, TPC-H, and SPECweb2005 benchmarks and customers are taking note. Sun reports several customers have selected Sun Fire x64 servers to power deployments in industries ranging from education to telecommunications to media and entertainment.

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World record TPC-H performance results for non-clustered systems have been recorded for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 configured with SPARC VI processors and the Sun StorageTek 2540 Arrays running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) combined with Oracle 11g.

The single system world record TPC-H performance of 118,573.3 QphH@1000GB for non-clustered systems demonstrates that the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 can handle the increasingly large databases required of DSS systems, assesses BM Seer, who provides details of this record-setting benchmark at his blog.

A new Kickfire Database Appliance based on Sun’s MySQL database has broken the dollar barrier of the Transaction Processing Performance Council - H (TPC-H) benchmarks, which is a first since the TPC-H benchmarks were instituted, coming in at just 70 cents for $/QphH in the 100GB category and claiming the number one spot in price-performance.

The Kickfire Database Appliance also took first place as the highest performing solution at 100GB in the non-clustered category. Based on the latest 100 GB TPC-H results, Kickfire achieved 49,228 QphH@100GB, the highest reported performance result on the 100GB benchmark in the non-clustered category. The price performance of this system was $0.70/QphH@100GB USD, which is the best in the industry. See Kickfire’s price performance metric.

Total system price over three years is $34,425. The system configuration was 1 x Kickfire Base Server Module, running CentOS 5.0 with: 2 Intel Xeon E5540 2.8GHz processors (each is 1 chip, 4 cores, 4 threads), 16 GB RAM, 8x 73 GB (15k rpm) internal SAS disks, 1 x Kickfire Query Processing Module, with 64 GB RAM. No cluster and total storage/database size ratio of 5.44 (total storage used = 544 GB; 1 GB = 230 bytes). Kickfire’s product is expected to be generally available October 14, 2008.