T2000 adds database leadership to its awards
Wednesday Apr 05, 2006
We've proven the Sun Fire T2000/T1000 on a wide variety of benchmarks that have stood for 4 months -- clearly other vendors can't beat them... or wouldn't they have posted already? You've all seen the leading web tier and application tier performance. You can see more of those at: http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t1000/benchmarks.jsp
This blog will give you a view of Sun Fire T2000 database performance. What Sun has done is to perform some head-to-head comparisons with the Dell Xeon running Linux. To make this a bit more real it is based on a heavier duty workload than TPC-C. You can see TPC's admission of TPC-C's issues at: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5708963.html
So let's see how the OLTP database performance compares on Oracle -- as you will see the T2000 is also a leader in database performance...
The iGEN-OLTP 1.5 benchmark is a SUN internally developed transaction processing database workload. This workload simulates a light-weight Global Order System that stresses lock management and connectivity. This benchmark is easily portable on any database that support the ANSI v2 standard.
The database has 1.25 million customers residing in it, and is approximately 6 GB in size. The transactions are comprised of various SQL transactions: read-only selects, joins and insert operations.
The transaction mix for iGen in this test are 39% heavy-weight, 43% medium-weight, and 17% light-weight queries).
Results
- The Sun Fire T2000 server beats the 4-way Dell PowerEdge 6850/Linux and 4-way Dell PowerEdge 6650/Linux configurations in head-to-head on Oracle OLTP database performance.
- The Sun Fire T2000 server is 3.7x faster than a Dell PowerEdge 6850 with four 3.12GHz Xeon EM64T processors.
- The Sun Fire T2000 server is 2.7x faster than the Dell PowerEdge 6650 with four 3GHz Xeon 32-bit processors with 3 MB L3 cache.
- The Sun Fire T2000 server is able to operate efficiently at very high loads and is very stable showing over 6,000 user connections using Oracle 10gR2. In contrast, the Dell Systems could only support 2,500 user connections and exhibited instability.
- Solaris is well know for stable performance at 100% utilization. In these tests Linux on a variety of platforms often had stability issues
- Low power consumption of the UltraSPARC T1 processor combined with the efficient system design of the T2000 servers and the high throughput performance of CoolThreads technology provide significant cost savings for customers. Total cost of ownership is dependent on system performance, which determines how many servers must be configured for a particular task, and power consumption of the system, which determines energy cost for system operation and cooling. The Sun Fire T2000 servers provide significant benefits in both these areas over competitors' offerings such as the Xeon based Dell servers described here.
- Not only is the Dell PowerEdge 6850 3.7x slower than the Sun Fire T2000 it also requires 1.6x more power at 510 watts. (Dell PowerEdge 6850 has four 3.12 GHz Xeon EM64T).
- The Oracle/Linux solution is often costly and complex to setup and maintain due to hidden or unclear compatibility and version dependencies.
- Sun Solaris has superior manageability compared to the Oracle/Linux enviroment, which requires strict compatibility among additional hardware and software components.
- The benchmark is derived from a customer workload and consists of a variety of realistic Heavy, Medium, and Light-weight queries.
...more to come
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