Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : IFMX - Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (10446)	4/27/1998 1:27:00 PM
From: bob zagorin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

Informix Delivers World Record On TPC-D 300GB Performance Benchmark; Informix Dynamic Server and Sun Starfire Combine to Set New Throughput Performance Mark MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1998--Informix Corporation, Inc. (NASDAQ:IFMX), the leading provider of innovative database technology, announced today record-breaking throughput for a multi-user 300 gigabyte TPC-D(R) benchmark. This result reinforces the company's leadership position in the high-performance data warehousing arena. Informix(R) achieved this TPC-D result on a Sun(R) Enterprise 10000 server. The combination of Informix Dynamic Server(R) with the Advanced Decision Support Option(tm) and Extended Parallel Option(tm), and Sun E10000 SMP technology achieved the highest TPC-D throughput on a 300GB database while running with multiple concurrent users. The Informix/Sun TPC-D benchmark delivered a leading throughput of 3,343.9 QthD@300GB with price/performance of $1,400 ($/QphD@300GB) and TPC-D Power of 8,114.3 QppD@300GB (see table below). The benchmark proves Informix's ability to provide leading TPC-D results even in multistream tests. Multistream is a database's ability to handle multiple complex data warehouse queries in parallel, thereby delivering continuous performance even under stress of multiple concurrent queries or when many users are accessing the data warehouse simultaneously. "By running this benchmark with multiple streams we have demonstrated our superior capabilities in handling contentions, sharing of resources, and management of complex queries when the system is under stress," said Nasir Ameireh, senior product marketing manager at Informix. "In fact, we consistently outperform the competition in the single stream and multistream user tests." "This capability becomes increasingly important as data warehouses and data marts spread throughout a company," continued Ameireh. "No longer are only a handful of decision makers and analysts accessing these vital databases; today, many more users are leveraging the power of data warehouses. Our record-breaking throughput proves that Informix Dynamic Server performance will not be adversely affected when more users access the resource simultaneously." Informix and Sun also hold the world-record one terabyte TPC-D benchmark result, published in February 1998, which exceeded performance numbers of proprietary databases from NCR's Teradata and IBM's DB2. With the best throughput performance on a 300 GB data warehouse demonstrated in today's benchmark testing, Informix continues to dominate performance for both large data warehouses and data marts. "The combination of Sun and Informix consistently ranks at or near the top in TPC-D benchmarks for power, throughput and price/performance. Customers benefit from these more effective solutions and lower cost of ownership versus competitive solutions," said Shahin Khan, director of marketing, Data Center and High Performance Computing Group at Sun Microsystems. "Sun's Starfire running Informix provides customers with a highly scalable SMP system with the capacity and multi-user throughput needed to support business-critical enterprise data warehouses." About the System and the Benchmark The system used for this benchmark was a Sun Enterprise 10000 with 64 336 MHz UltraSPARC II CPUs running the Solaris 2.6 operating system. The storage subsystem consisted of Sun RSM SPARCstorage technology employing RAID-1 for data protection. Informix Dynamic Server with Advanced Decision Support and Extended Parallel Options was used to implement the benchmark. The following table compares this benchmark with the only other published 300GB multi-user TPC-D benchmark available as of April 20, 1998. -0- T Database/Version: Teradata V2R2.1 Informix IDS/AD/XP 8.2 Hardware vendor: NCR SUN Total system cost: $ 11,669,718 $ 7,292,372 TPC-D throughput (QthD@300GB): 3117.0 3343.9 Price/Performance ($/QphD@300GB): $ 2,172 $ 1,400 TPC-D Power (QppD@300GB): 9260.0 8113.2 QphD@300GB: 5372.4 5208.6 Load time: 13:36 8:24 Number of CPUs: 96 (24X4) 64 Available date: March 15, 1998 June 15, 1998 T -0- About the TPC and the TPC-D Benchmark The Transaction Processing Performance Council is an independent organization formed by member companies across the computer industry. The TPC-D benchmark examines system performance in a decision support workload. It differs from OLTP benchmarks in testing system performance in workloads with few transactions involving a large amount of data and queries of greater complexity. For more information about TPC benchmarks and results, please refer to the Transaction Processing Performance Council Web site at tpc.org. About Informix Informix Corporation, the world's database technology leader, based in Menlo Park, California, provides innovative database products that assist the world's major corporations to attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing applications. Informix's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of major information technology solution areas including data warehousing, OLTP, and Web/content management. For more information visit Informix's Web site at informix.com. -0- Note to Editors: TPC Benchmark and TPC-D are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council. The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its affiliates: Informix(R), Informix Dynamic Server(tm), Advanced Decision Support Option(tm), Extended Parallel Option(tm). Informix news releases are available at no charge through Business Wire's NewsOnDemand fax service. To immediately receive an index of available releases, call 800/356-0851. CONTACT: Wilson McHenry Company Christina Grenier, 650/638-3400 ext. 266 cgrenier@wmc.com