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Outstanding performance can really turn people’s heads; look at the Bugatti Veyron or some of the most advanced Ferraris as proof. A good price point can earn attention, too . . . all sorts of stuff has been written about the Tata Nano. But it’s the combination of these qualities that may count most, and Oracle and HP have set a database record in this respect.
Think of Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One as a Chevrolet Corvette or even a Nissan GT-R, if you will. A press release sent out today explained how it aced the database equivalent of a horsepower per dollar examination.
The release stated, “Achieving 232,002 transactions per minute with a price/performance of $.54USD/tpmC, Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One with Oracle Enterprise Linux running on an HP ProLiant ML350 G6 server with a single-socket Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5520 quad-core processor and HP Smart Array P411 controller delivered the best price-per-transaction-per-minute ever achieved with the TPC-C benchmark, in addition to delivering the fastest result for a one socket system.”
Impressed yet? John Gromala, the director of product marketing over HP’s Industry Standard Servers division, also said, “The TPC-C benchmark is the industry standard OLTP benchmark, and HP’s leading price/performance further reinforces the significant value HP ProLiant servers running Oracle Database provide to our customers.”
So although this setup may not make as great of a glossy poster as an Aston Martin, it sounds like there’s definitely something new for database professionals to drool over.
Topics: Database, Oracle, Programming
