Data General And Oracle Set Decision Support Records In Performance And
Price/Performance
Business Wire - November 11, 1997 16:02
WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1997--
Intel Based AViiON Server Running Oracle Data Server on Windows NT Delivers Best Ever
TPC-D 100-GB Results for an SMP System; First to Use Fibre Technology in TPC
Benchmark
Extending their leadership positions in the NT enterprise market, Data General Corporation
and Oracle Corp. today announced record-breaking power metric performance results and
best price/performance for decision-support applications in single SMP systems. The
Transaction Processing Council Benchmark D (TPC-D) 100-GB tests were run on an Data
General AViiON AV 6600 six-processor server running Oracle8 universal data server and
Windows NT Enterprise Edition, using CLARiiON fibre channel technology. "Achieving the
best single-system SMP performance and price/performance in this benchmark clearly
demonstrates that AViiON servers combined with Oracle and NT have the performance and
scalability to run the most demanding enterprise applications, including data warehousing
and data marts," said Dave Ellenberger, vice president of the Data General's NT Business
Unit. "These benchmarks prove once again that Oracle and Data General are delivering high
performance and cost-effective platforms for Windows NT data marts," said Charles
Rozwat senior vice president, Database Server at Oracle Corporation. "By helping to reduce
the price barrier to entry, Oracle and Data General are enabling lines of businesses within
large corporations as well as smaller companies to implement and take advantage of data
marts without busting their IT budgets." "This highly successful project pioneered the use
of fibre channel technology in TPC benchmarks," said Larry Hemmerich, vice president and
general manager of CLARiiON. "As the first to deliver fibre storage products for the NT
market, CLARiiON provides the performance, capacity, and scalability enterprise customers
need." Transaction Performance Council (TPC) tests monitor systems in a controlled
hardware environment. TPC-D represents a broad range of decision-support applications,
addressing issues of database capacity, query processing power, query throughput, and
price-per-query performance. Thus, TPC-D tests provide a good demonstration of system
performance which translates well
o customer applications. In this test, an AV 6600 server, configured with six Intel Pentium
Pro processors with 1- MB L2 cache each and 2 GB of memory, running the Oracle 8.0.4
database and Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition operating system, was
rated at 1135.7 QppD@100GB (Query processing power TPC-D) and 377.4 QthD@100GB
(query throughput), and a TPC-D price/performance of $679/QphD@100GB. The AV 6600
server was configured with 386 GB of full-fibre channel CLARiiON FC5000 JBOD (Just a
Bunch of Disks) disk storage.
Top Five TPC-D 100-GB performance results for non-clustered
SMP systems
Power Throughput P/P Availability
Vendor/System (QppD) (QthD) $/QphD
Data General AViiON AV 6600 1135.7 377.4 $ 679 12/97
Sun Ultra Enterprise 450 1069.7 359.4 $ 755 12/97
Digital AlphaServer 8400 5/440 972.9 506.4 $1,920 1/97
Compaq ProLiant 6500 6/200 869.4 269.8 $ 892 6/97
Dell PowerEdge 6100 531.5 195.3 $1,124 1/98
Availability
AViiON servers and related hardware are available now. Oracle 8.0.4 universal data server
on Windows NT is scheduled to be available December 30, 1997.
Data General - The Market Leader in Enterprise NT
According to recently released 1996 shipment revenue figures from International Data
Corporation, Data General is the worldwide marketshare leader in NT systems selling
between $50,000 and $100,000 and holds the second position in NT servers selling between
$100,000 and $250,000.
About the TPC-D Benchmark
The TPC-D benchmark represents a broad range of decision-support applications. The
benchmark requires seventeen comprehensive and complex queries as well as two update
functions to be processed over a vast amount of data. This standard is used to measure
performance and throughput for solutions that include the hardware, operating system, and
database. For more information about TPC benchmarks and results, please visit the
Transaction Performance Council Web site at www.tpc.org
About Data General
Data General, based in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers, storage systems,
and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported fiscal
1997 revenues of $1.5 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and
services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management,
and the world's second largest software company. With annual revenues of $6 billion, the
company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting,
education and support services, in more than 140 countries around the world. For more
information about Oracle, please call 650/506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is
(URL) oracle.com
AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation. Oracle is a
registered trademark and Oracle8 is a trademark of Oracle Corporation. All brand and
product names appearing in the press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective holders. |
