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Sun World Record for Largest Data Warehouse - One Petabyte!

Thursday May 15, 2008

Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, Sybase IQ, and BMMsoft Server managed one Petabyte of raw data. That was over 6 trillion rows of transactional data and more than 185 million content-searchable documents, emails, reports, spreadsheets and other multimedia objects! This even set a new Guinness World Record™.

This is twice the size of the largest commercial data warehouse known to date. The largest known database is Walmart which is said to have half a terabyte of data using the Teradata DB.

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Single system world record TPC-H Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Sun and StorageTek 2540

Thursday May 08, 2008

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 configured with SPARC VI processors, Sun StorEdge 2540 Arrays, and running Solaris 10 combined with Oracle 11g achieved World Record TPC-H performance of 118,573.3 QphH@1000GB for non-clustered systems.

The TPC-H result demonstrates that the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 can handle the increasingly large databases required of DSS systems. Oracle delivered 13 GB/sec during the benchmark. editorial note: IBM has never proven delivered IO rates? Why does IBM only resort to quoting un-obtainable peaks?

  • Why no single-system 4.7GHz or 5.0GHz Power6 on TPC-H? IBM has cluster results, this allows IBM to avoid comparisons to a single system.
  • The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 outperformed the next best competitor non-clustered system, the HP Integrity Superdome by 69%.
  • The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 outperformed the next best competitor non-cluster system, the HP Integrity Superdome by 18% on price/performance.
  • The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 outperformed the clustered IBM xSeries 346 by 122%.
  • The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 outperformed the clustered IBM xSeries 346 by 29% on price/performance.
  • Sun StorageTek 2540 Array disk configuration - the 20x ST2540 configuration in this benchmark delivered sustained rates of 13.7 GB/sec and showed linear scaling from 1 to 20 arrays.
  • This result demonstrates the effectiveness of Solaris 10 running Oracle 11g.
TPC-H @1000GB Single-system (non-cluster) Performance Chart

QphH = the Composite Metric (bigger is better), $/QphH = the Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)

System Metric
QphH		 3 Year
Total
Sys $		 $/QphH QppH QthH  
CPUs		 Storage
Amount
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 118,573.3 $2,772,675 $23.38 114,725.4 122,550.2 32 34.8 TB
HP Superdome 69,999.0 $2,008,168 $28.69 90,909.1 53,898.5 32 39.7 TB
HP Superdome 68,100.6 $4,008,065 $59.00 83,041.7 55,847.7 64 40.6 TB


System  
CPU		  
Cluster		 CPU
MHz		 CPU Operating System Database RDBMS+HW
Avail
date
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 32 N 2400 SPARC64 VI Solaris 10 Oracle 11g 09/10/2008
HP Superdome 32 N 1600 Itanium2 Windows Server 2003 SQL Server 2005 06/18/2007
HP Superdome 64 N 1600 Itanium2 HP-UX 11.i V2 Oracle 10gR2 01/18/2006

Benchmark Description

The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.

TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.

The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.

Disclosure Statement:

Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 118,573.3 QphH@1000GB, $23.38/QphH@1000GB, avail 09/10/08, HP Integrity Superdome 69,999.0 QphH@1000GB, $28.69/QphH@1000GB avail 06/18/07, HP Integrity Superdome 68,100.6 QphH@1000GB, $59.00/QphH@1000GB avail 01/18/06, IBM xSeries 346 QphH@1000GB, $32.80/QphH@1000GB, avail 02/14/05, TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.

A 128-core (32-node 4-core) IBM Power 570 cluster (4.7 GHz, 64 chips, 256 threads) with DB2 is the best overall system at 10TB (343,551 QphH@10000GB, 32.89$/QphH, configuration available 04/15/08, Results as of 5/07/08). Note: Do not divide this result by 32 to guess at single node performance, do not compare $/perf between different GB tests, these are not permitted by TPC rules!

Results Summary

  • Audited Results
    		•
  • Database Size:
    		•  1000 GB (Scale Factor 1000)
  • TPC-H Composite:
    		•  118,573.3 QphH@1000GB
  • Price/performance:
    		•  $23.38/QphH@1000GB
  • Available:
    		•  09/10/2008 for Oracle (Sun HW/SW available 05/02/2008)
  • Number of Systems:
    		•  One Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000
  • Total Number Processors:
    		•  32
  • Processor/MHz of Server:
    		•  SPARC VI 2400 MHz / 6MB L2 Cache
  • Storage:
    		•  34.8 Terabytes of disk
  • Database:
    		•  Oracle 11g
  • Operating System:
    		•  Solaris 10 Update 4
  • Total 3 year Cost:
    		•  $2,772,675
  • Other Performance Metrics
    		•
  • TPC-H Power:
    		•  114,725.4
  • TPC-H Throughput:
    		•  122,550.2
  • Database Load Time:
    		•  1:35:27

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Outstanding TPC-H results: Sun & Paraccel

Wednesday Oct 31, 2007

Yesterday I posted several Sun Fire X4100 world record performance & $/performance results on the TPC-H benchmarks. Sun leads the pack with Paraccel's innovative software and even the software pricing model. I wanted to try to give even more insights.

ParAccel has a very efficient data compression techniques so using the storage associated with Sun's hardware design, the Sun TPC-H cluster submissions did not need ANY external storage. The data could be entirely contained on the internal drives of each node. Once again, Sun is the ONLY vendor that has been able to do so. Other vendors, using traditional RDBMS, are forced to submit results with a disproportionate number of spindles, in order to achieve competitive performance, even at small scale factors. As a consequence, the Sun ParAccel cluster solution greatly reduces costs and requirements for space, power/cooling, maintenance and complex hardware administration.

Sun and ParAccel are in the remarkably unique position of having simultaneously the best performance and price/performance by far at multiple TPC-H scale factors. As I said yesterday, innovators seek out and find innovators.

The ParAccel Analytic Database is an innovative RDBMS designed from the ground up as Decision Support and Business Intelligence database.

ParAccel has a parallel cluster architecture, "shared-nothing", with node redundancy, which relies on a column-based table structure and heavy data compression. Compression provides for a significantly smaller data footprint, higher speed in data processing and transmission. The significant reduction in the size of the data allows for even large databases to be fully contained in the memory of a cluster of multiple systems. The database can also operate by accessing data on permanent storage, although with a tradeoff in performance.

ParAccel doesn't make use of complex index structures, further reducing database size, administration complexity and simplifying data updates.

Data partitioning and load balancing is provided automatically by the ParAccel product and doesn't require manual DB admin intervention, either to optimize the data layout or to create additional indexes and structures, traditionally needed to speedup query performance.

Results detailed at:

http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/innovation_setting_world_records_in

http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/tpc_h_100gb_sun_fire

http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/sun_paraccel_in_tpc_h

Disclosure Statement:

TPC-H @1000GB Sun Fire X4100 cluster 315,842.9 QphH@1000GB, $4.57/QphH@1000GB, avail 10/29/07; TPC-H @300GB Sun Fire X4100 cluster 198,578.1 QphH@300GB, $3.15/QphH@300GB, avail 10/29/07; TPC-H @100GB Sun Fire X4100 cluster 98,857.0 QphH@100GB, $2.65/QphH@100GB, avail 10/29/07; TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info http://www.tpc.org.

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TPC-H 100GB Sun Fire X4100, Paraccel World Record Performance and $/Perf

Tuesday Oct 30, 2007

Paraccel & Sun didn't just do one benchmark, we did it at three different sizes: TPC-H 1000GB, TPC-H 300GB, and now the 100GB details below.

in the TPC-H 1000GB blog entry we also talked about Paraccel's pricing innovations.

This benchmark result demonstrates that a shared-nothing cluster of Sun Fire X4100s achieves the best performance and, simulatenously, the best price/performance among all TPC-H@100GB submissions. Each of the 15 node in the cluster was powered by 2 dual-core 2.8GHz Opteron processors.

Specifically, the Sun Fire X4100 cluster achieved a QphH@100GB of 98,857 together with $/QphH@100GB of $2.65. The performance is more than 5 times the previously reported best performance and the price/performance is almost twice as good as the previously reported best price/performance.

Competitive Landscape TPC-H @100GB Performance:

$/QphH = TPC-H Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
QphH = TPC-H Composite Metric (bigger is better)

System Socket/
Core/
Thread		 CPU Type GHz QphH $/
QphH
 Total $ DBMS
 Avail # Clust node
Sun Fire X4100
 30/ 60/ 60
 Opt 2.8GHz 98,857 2.65
 263,460.06
 Paraccel
 10/29/07 15
HP DL585 G2
 4/ 8/ 8
 Opt 2.8GHz 19323
 10.67
 205,988
 SQLS
 1/16/07 1
Dell PE6950
 4/ 8/ 8 Opt 2.8GHz 17180
 7.64
 131,204
 SQLS
 12/04/06 1
HP DL580 G4
 4/8/8 Xeon 3.4GHz 17120
 7.91
 135,384
 SQLS
 11/22/06 1
Dell PE2900
 2/ 8/ 8 Xeon 2.66GHz 15724
 7.45
 117,022
 SQLS
 12/31/06 1
IBM eSvr 325
 16/ 16/ 16 Opteron 2.0GHz 12216
 70.68
 863,410
 DB2
 11/08/03 8

TPC-H @100GB Price-Performance:

$/QphH = TPC-H $/Perf metric (smaller better)
QphH = TPC-H Composite Metric (bigger better)

System Socket/
Core/
Thread		 CPU GHz QphH $/
QphH
 Total $ DBMS
 Avail # of
Clust
Node
Sun Fire X4100
 30/ 60/ 60
 Opt 2.8 GHz 98,857.0
 2.65
 263,460.06
 Paraccel
 10/29/07 15
HP ML370G5
 1/4/4
 Xeon 2.66 GHz 4521
 4.30
 19,437
 SQLS
 7/31/07 1
Sun Fire X4100
 2/ 2/ 2
 Opt 3.0GHz 4132
 4.61
 19,057
 SybIQ
 6/23/06 1
Sun Fire X4100M2
 2/ 4/ 4 Opt 3.0 GHz 8587
 5.29
 45,467
 SybIQ
 5/25/07 1
Dell PE6950
 4/ 8/ 8 Opt 2.8GHz 14923
 5.66
 84,387
 SQLS
 12/04/06
 1
Dell PE6950
 4/ 8/ 8 Opt 2.8GHz 17180
 7.64
 131,204
 SQLS
 12/04/06 1
HP DL580 G4
 4/ 8/ 8 Xeon 3.4GHz 17120
 7.91
 135,384
 SQLS
 11/22/06 1

Benchmark Description

The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.

TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.

The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.

Disclosure Statement:

TPC-H @100GB Sun Fire X4100 cluster 98,857.0 QphH@100GB, $2.65/QphH@100GB, avail 10/29/07; TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info http://www.tpc.org.

See Also:

TPC-H Scale Factor 100 (SF100 - 100GB) benchmark.
Audited Results

Database Size: 100 GB (Scale Factor 100)

TPC-H Composite: 98,857 QphH@100GB

$/perf: $2.65 / QphH@100GB

Available Oct 29, 2007
# of Systems: 15 x Sun Fire X4100
each X4100:
16GB memory each,
2 x 146GB (10k RPM) internal SAS each
Total # Procs: 30
Total # Cores: 60
Total # Threads: 60
Processor/GHz of Server: Opteron/2.8 GHz Dual-core
Storage: 4079 Gigabytes of disk
Database: Paraccel Analystic Database
Operating System: RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.4
Total 3 year Cost: $263,460.06
Other Performance Metrics

TPC-H Power: 70,827.4

TPC-H Throughput: 137,979.1

Database Load Time  10 minutes 42 seconds

Storage Ratio: 40.08

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Sun/Paraccel in TPC-H 300GB World Records

Tuesday Oct 30, 2007

This benchmark result demonstrates that a shared-nothing cluster of Sun Fire X4100s achieves the best performance and, simulatenously, the best price/performance among all TPC-H@300GB submissions. Each of the 30 node in the cluster was powered by 2 dual-core 2.8GHz Opteron processors. Specifically, the Sun Fire X4100 cluster achieved a QphH@300GB of 198,578 together with $/QphH@300GB of $3.15. The performance is almost 5 times the previously reported best performance and the price/performance is more than twice as good as the previously reported best price/performance.

For other Other Innovations see: http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/innovation_setting_world_records_in

TPC-H @300GB Performance:
$/QphH = TPC-H Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
QphH = TPC-H Composite Metric (bigger is better)

System Socket
/Core/
Thread		 CPU Type GHz QphH $/
QphH
 total
price		 DBMS
 Avail # Clust Nodes
Sun Fire X4100
 60/ 120/ 120
 Opt 2.8GHz 198,578 3.15
 624,770
 Paraccel
 10/29/07 30
HP BL480c
 16/ 32/ 32
 Opt 3.0GHz 40411
 18.67
 754,232
 Oracle
 12/18/06 8
HP BL460c
 16/ 32/ 32 Xeon 3.0GHz 39614
 12.57
 497,869
 Oracle
 9/15/07
  8
Dell PE6800
 8/ 16/ 32 Xeon 3.0GHz 18881
 24.37
 460,004
 Oracle
 4/24/06
  2
IBM eSvr 325
 16/ 16/ 16 Opt 2.0GHz 13195
 65.44
 863,410
 DB2
 11/08/03
  8

TPC-H @300GB Price-Performance:
$/QphH = TPC-H Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
QphH = TPC-H Composite Metric (bigger is better)

System Socket/
Core/
Thread		 CPU Type GHz QphH Price/
QphH
 Price
in
US dollars
 DBMS
 Available #
Clust
Nodes
Sun Fire X4100
 60/120/120
 Opteron 2.8 GHz 198578
 3.15
 624,770
 Paracell
 10/29/07 30
Sun Fire X4100M2
 2/ 4/ 4 Opt 3.0 GHz 7641
 5.89
 45,001
 SybIQ
 5/25/07
  1
Sun Fire X4200
 2/ 2/ 2
 Opt 3.0GHz 4936
 6.29
 31,033
 SybIQ
 6/23/06 1
HP DL585 G1
 4/ 4 /4 Opt 2.4GHz 12226
 11.71
 143,041
 SQLS
 1/26/06  1
HP BL460c
 16/ 32/ 32 xeon 3.0GHz 39614
 12.57
 497,869
 Oracle
 9/15/07  8
HP DL585 G2
 4/ 8/ 8 Opt 2.8GHz 18299
 13.67
 250,057
 SQLS
 4/19/07
  1
IBM x3650
 2/ 4/ 4 Xeon 3.0GHz 10165
 15.40
 156,535
 DB2
 10/06/06
  1
Dell 6800
 8/ 8/ 8 Xeon 3.33GHz 11743
 21.84
 256,383
 Oracle
 1/08/06  2

Benchmark Description

The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.

TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.

The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.

Disclosure Statement:

TPC-H @300GB Sun Fire X4100 cluster 198,578.1 QphH@300GB, $3.15/QphH@300GB, avail 10/29/07; TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info http://www.tpc.org.

See Also:

Results Summary TPC-H SF300 - 300GB benchmark

    Audited Results

    		Database Size: 300 GB (Scale Factor 300)

    		TPC-H Composite: 198,578 QphH@300GB

    		Price/performance: $3.15 / QphH@300GB

    		Available Oct 29, 2007
    Number of Systems: 30 x Sun Fire X4100
    each X4100:
    16GB memory each,
    2 x 146GB (10k RPM) internal SAS each
    Total Number Processors: 60
    Total Number Cores: 120
    Total Number Threads: 120
    Processor/GHz of Server: Opteron/2.8 GHz Dual-core
    Storage: 8158 Gigabytes of disk
    Database: Paraccel Analystic Database
    Operating System: RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.4
    Total 3 year Cost: $624,770.12
    Other Performance Metrics

    		TPC-H Power: 145,219.3

    		TPC-H Throughput: 271,542.9

    		Database Load Time  15 minutes 5 seconds

    		Storage Ratio: 27.19

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Innovation: Setting World Records in TPC-H Paraccel & Sun Fire X4100 SF1000

Tuesday Oct 30, 2007

Innovation is an infectious thing in a very good way. Innovators seek out innovators to get even greater things. This is a story that is all about that. Customer wanted innovative hardware, they came to Sun, customer was interested in new database software (Paraccel). We saw each other's innovations, did some test, made some plans, and became quick friends. Wait till we apply a few more innovative things and make things even better.

Sun Fire X4100 using Paraccel Analytic Database sets World Record Performance and Price/Performance for the TPC-H @1000GB. This benchmark result demonstrates that a shared-nothing cluster of Sun Fire X4100s achieves the best performance and at the same time the best price/performance amongst all TPC-H@1000GB submissions. Each of the 48 node in the cluster was powered by 2 dual-core 2.8GHz Opteron processors.

The best thing:The Paraccel Analytic Database isn't about setting benchmark world records. It SETS world records because it is designed to do industrial strength everyday DSS. If you need this kind of database work for mission critical activities you should get to know Paraccel.

The benchmark details: the Sun Fire X4100 cluster achieved a QphH@1000GB of 315,842 together with $/QphH@1000GB of $4.57. The performance is almost 5 times the previously reported best performance and the price/performance is almost twice as good as the previously reported best price/performance.

Other Innovations: Another key area of innovation is business model. I've long complained about pricing a gallon of automotive gasoline by the number of cylinders in each particular car (wow that sounds silly) - whoops, I mean pricing software by # of cores. Paraccel Analytic Database innovates here as well. Databases manage data, pricing is tied to the amount of data managed. Fair and easy to measure and related to what the software does. The majors could learn from Paraccel in this area as well.

TPC-H @SF1000GB Performance Table:

$/QphH = TPC-H Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
QphH = TPC-H Composite Metric (bigger is better)
System Socket
/Core/
Thread		 CPU Type GHz QphH $/
QphH
 Total Price DBMS
 Avail # Clust node
Sun Fire X4100
 96/ 192/ 192
 Opt 2.8GHz
 315,842
 4.57
 624,770
 Paraccel
  10/29/07 48
HP Super- dome
 32/ 64/ 64 Itan2 1.6GHz 69,999
 28.69
 2,008,168
 SQLS
 6/18/07  1
HP Super- dome
 64/ 64/ 64 Itan2 1.6GHz 68,101
 59.00
 4,008,065
 Oracle
 1/18/06  1
IBM eSvr 346
 64/ 64/ 128 Xeon 3.6GHz 53,451
 32.80
 1,753,144
 DB2
 2/14/05  64
HP DL585
 48/ 48/ 48 Opt 2.2GHz
 35,141
 59.93
 2,106,123
 Oracle
 10/21/04  12
Bull 6320
 32/ 32/ 32 Itan2 1.6GHz 34,988
 38.41
 1,343,811
 Oracle
 2/02/06  1



TPC-H @1000GB Price-Performance Table:

$/QphH = TPC-H Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
QphH = TPC-H Composite Metric (bigger is better)

System Socket/
Core/
Thread		 CPU Type GHz QphH $/
QphH
 Price
in
US dollars
 DBMS
 Available #
Cluster
Node
Sun Fire X4100
 96/ 192/ 192
 Opt 2.8GHz 315842
 4.57
 624,770
 Paraccel
  10/29/07 48
Sun Fire X4500 G2
 2/ 4/ 4
 Opt 2.8 GHz 5604
 8.11
 45,439
 SybIQ
  10/15/07 1
HP DL585 G2
 4/ 8/ 8
 Opt 2.8GHz 14772
 9.73
 143,736
 SQLS
  04/25/07 1
Bull 3045
 4/ 8/ 16 Itan2 1.6GHz 12087
 12.56
 151,870
 SQLS
 03/06/07
  1
HP DL585 G1
 4/ 4/ 4 Opt 2.4GH 10493
 13.85
 145,264
 SQLS
 03/02/06
  1
Bull 5651
 16/ 16/ 16 Itan2 1.6GHz 17059
 25.48
 434,553
 SQLS
 05/08/06
  1
IBM eSvr 346
 64/ 64/ 128 Xeon 3.6GHz 53451
 32.80
 1,753,144
 DB2
 02/14/05
  64

Benchmark Description

The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.

TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.

The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.

Disclosure Statement:

TPC-H @1000GB Sun Fire X4100 cluster 315,842.9 QphH@1000GB, $4.57/QphH@1000GB, avail 10/29/07; TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info http://www.tpc.org.

See Also:

Results Summary
Audited Results

Database Size: 1000 GB (Scale Factor 1000)

TPC-H Composite: 315,842 QphH@1000GB

Price/performance: $4.57 / QphH@1000GB

Available Oct 29, 2007
Number of Systems: 48 x Sun Fire X4100,
each X4100:
16GB memory each,
2 x 146GB (10k RPM) internal SAS each
Total # Procs: 96
Total # Cores: 192
Total # Threads: 192
Processor GHz: Opteron/2.8 GHz Dual-core
Storage: 13053 Total Gbytes of disk
Database: Paraccel Analytic Database
Operating System: RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.4
Total 3 year Cost: $1,442,050.52
Other Performance Metrics

TPC-H Power: 289,877.5

TPC-H Throughput: 344,134.1

Database Load Time  41 minutes 44 seconds

Storage Ratio: 13.05

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Another Sun Fire X4500 World Record Price/Perf (codename: "Thumper")

Wednesday Oct 17, 2007

The Sun Fire X4500 system running Solaris 10 and Sybase IQ 12.6 achieved a new TPC-H Price/Performance World Record of $8.11 USD $/QphH@1000GB. (Sun Fire X4500 was code-named "Thumper")

The single Sun Fire X4500 beat the previous best Price/Performance result, the HP DL585 G2 16%, and is the only 2-socket submission at 1000GB

The total storage in this Sun configuration was 11.2TB and it still allowed it to set the price/performance record on this 1TB Benchmarks (1TB ~= SF1000 = 1000GB). Lowest total cost of ownership ($45,439) of ANY submission at 1000GB and less than 1/3rd of the cost of the HP DL585 G2 total configuration.

The TPC-H result demonstrates the Sun Fire X4500 capabilities as a database machine. Each node of the X4500 cluster delivered 1.5 GB/sec of real IO throughput for a total of 1.5 GB/sec.

The TPC-H result demonstrates the effectiveness of Solaris 10 running Sybase IQ and results on the Opteron processors. Another "warehouse in a box" result from Sun. To date, Sun is the only vendor to be able to produce "in the box" TPC-H results of any kind.

TPC-H @1000GB Performance Chart (to be added, sorry it is very late right now)

QphH = the Composite Metric (bigger is better)
$/QphH = the Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
QppH = the Power Numerical Quantity
QthH = the Throughput Numerical Quantity
 

System Sockets/
Cores/
Threads		 CPU Type GHz QphH Price/
QphH
 Price
in
currency
 DBMS
 Available Disk
Data
Ratio
Sun Fire X4500
 2/4/4
 Opteron
 2.8
 5604
 8.11
 45,439 $US
 SybIQ
  10/15/07 11.2
HP DL585 G2
 4/8/8
 Opteron
 2.8
 14773
 9.73
 143,736 $US
 SQLS
  04/25/07 7.8
Bull 3045
 4/8/16 Itanium
 1.6
 12087
 12.56
 151,870 $US
 SQLS
 03/06/07
  5.7
HP DL585 G1
 4/4/4 Opteron
 2.4
 10493
 13.85
 145,264 $US
 SQLS
 03/02/06
  6.4
Bull 5651
 16/16/16 Itanium
 1.6
 17060
 25.48
 434,553 $US
 SQLS
 05/08/06
  9.3
Sun Fire V490
 4/8/8 US-IV+
 1.5
 4368
 31.17
 136,121 $US
 SybIQ
 01/05/06
  2.7
Details of the Sun X4500 test

Complete benchmark results may be found at the TPC benchmark website http://www.tpc.org.

Benchmark Description

The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.

TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.

The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.

Disclosure Statement:

Sun Fire X4500 5,604.9 QphH@1000GB, $8.11 USD $/QphH@1000GB, avail 10/15/07; HP DL585 G2, 14,773 QphH@1000GB, $9.73 USD $/QphH@1000GB, avail 4/25/07; TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.

Results Summary SF1000 (SF1000 = 1000GB) benchmark

  • Audited Results
    		•
  • Database Size:
    		•  1000 GB (Scale Factor 1000)
  • TPC-H Composite:
    		•  5,604.9 QphH@1000GB
  • Price/performance:
    		•  $8.11 USD $/QphH@1000GB
  • Available:
    		•  October 15, 2007
  • Number of Systems:
    		•  one Sun Fire X4500
  • Total Number Processors:
    		•  2
  • Processor/MHz of Server:
    		•  AMD Dual Core Opteron Model 290 2.8 GHz
  • Storage:
    		•  11.18 Terabytes of disk
  • Database:
    		•  Sybase IQ 12.6
  • Operating System:
    		•  Solaris 10
  • Total 3 year Cost:
    		•  $45,439.50 USD
  • Other Performance Metrics
    		•
  • TPC-H Power:
    		•  6,446.1
  • TPC-H Throughput:
    		•  4,873.5
  • Database Load Time:
    		•  10 hours 5 minutes

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    Sun Fire X4500 Cluster World Record Price/Perf (codename: "Thumper")

    Wednesday Oct 17, 2007

    The 10-node Sun Fire X4500 cluster running Solaris 10 and IBM DB2 9.1 achieved a new TPC-H Price/Performance World Record of $29.39 USD $/QphH@3000GB. (Sun Fire X4500 was code-named "Thumper")

    The Sun Fire X4500 cluster beat the previous best Price/Performance result, the IBM xSeries 346 cluster by 9%.

    The total storage in this Sun configuration was 218TB and it still allowed it to set the price/performance record on this 3TB Benchmarks (3TB ~= SF3000 = 3000GB).

    With this result, Sun systems running Solaris 10 now hold 2 of the top 4 price/performance results on the TPC-H@3000GB benchmark and 3 of the top 10.

    The TPC-H result demonstrates the Sun Fire X4500 capabilities as a database machine. Each node of the X4500 cluster delivered 1.5 GB/sec of real IO throughput for a total of 15 GB/sec.

    The TPC-H result demonstrates the effectiveness of Solaris 10 running DB2 and results on the Opteron processors.

    TPC-H @3000GB Performance Chart

    QphH = the Composite Metric (bigger is better)
    $/QphH = the Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
    QppH = the Power Numerical Quantity
    QthH = the Throughput Numerical Quantity
     
    System Composite
    (QphH)    		 3 Year Total
    System Cost    		 $/perf
    $/QphH    		 Power
    (QppH)    		 Through-
    put (QthH)    		  
    Proc    		 Storage
    Amount
    Sun Fire X4500 38,672.4 $1,136,536 $29.39 51,320.0 29,141.8 20 218.3 TB
    IBM xSeries 346 54,465.9 $1,761,686 $32.34 90,854.7 32,651.4 64 25.6 TB
    HP Superdome 60,359.3 $1,967,970 $32.60 80,838.3 45,068.3 32 32.9 TB
    Sun Fire E25K 114,713.7 $4,207,126 $36.68 136,798.4 96,194.3 72 63.3 TB
    HP Proliant BL25p 110,576.5 $4,179,238 $37.80 116,379.3 105,063.0 64 69.6 TB
    Unisys ES7000/one 30,013.4 $1,135,354 $37.83 38,395.9 23,460.9 16 27.8 TB
    HP rx8640 37,813.7 $1,433,521 $37.92 51,160.6 27,948.8 16 22.6 TB
    Unisys ES7000 Orion 26,246.1 $1,169,880 $44.58 33,415.8 20,614.7 32 23.8 TB
    IBM p595 100,512.3 $5,358,874 $53.32 132,598.2 76,190.5 64 37.7 TB
    Sun Fire E25K 105,430.9 $5,784,902 $54.87 121,805.8 91,257.4 72 94.8 TB
    HP Superdome 71,847.8 $4,008,065 $55.79 92,335.6 55,905.9 64 40.6 TB


    System  
    Proc    		  
    cluster    		 CPU
    MHz    		 Type Operating System Database RDBMS+HW
    Available
    Sun Fire X4500 20 Y 2600 AMD Opteron
    285    		 Solaris 10 DB2 9.1 10/12/2007
    IBM xSeries 346 64 Y 3600 Intel Xeon Suse Linux DB2 UDB 8.2 08/15/2005
    HP Integrity
    Superdome    		 32 N 1600 Itanium2 Windows 2003 Microsoft SQL
    Server    		 05/21/2007
    Sun Fire E25K 72 N 1800 UltraSPARC IV+ Solaris 10 Oracle 10g 04/09/2007
    HP ProLiant BL25p 64 Y 2600 AMD Opteron 285 Red Hat Enter. Linux 4 Oracle 10g 06/08/2006
    Unisys ES7000/one 16 N 1600 Itanium2 Windows 2003 Microsoft SQL
    Server    		 09/08/2006
    HP rx8640 16 N 1600 Itanium2 Windows 2003 Oracle 10g 05/14/2007
    Unisys ES7000 Orion 32 N 1600 Itanium2 Windows 2003 Microsoft SQL
    Server    		 05/05/2006
    IBM p595 64 N 1900 POWER 5 AIX 5L V5.3 Oracle 10g 03/01/2006
    Sun Fire E25K 72 N 1500 UltraSPARC IV+ Solaris 10 Oracle 10g 01/27/2006
    HP Superdome 64 N 1600 Itanium2 HP-UX 11.i V2 Oracle 10g 01/18/2006

    Complete benchmark results may be found at the TPC benchmark website http://www.tpc.org.

    Benchmark Description

    The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.

    TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.

    The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.

    Disclosure Statement:

    Sun Fire X4500 cluster 38,672.4 QphH@3000GB, $29.39 USD $/QphH@3000GB, avail 10/12/07; IBM eServer xSeries 346 cluster 54,465.9 QphH@3000GB, 32.34 USD $/QphH@3000GB, avail 8/15/05. TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.

    Results Summary SF3000 (SF3000 = 3000GB) benchmark

  • Audited Results
    		•
  • Database Size:
    		•  3000 GB (Scale Factor 3000)
  • TPC-H Composite:
    		•  38,672.4 QphH@3000GB
  • Price/performance:
    		•  $29.39 USD $/QphH@3000GB
  • Available:
    		•  October 12, 2007
  • Number of Systems:
    		•  10 Sun Fire X4500
  • Total Number Processors:
    		•  20
  • Processor/MHz of Server:
    		•  AMD Dual Core Opteron Model 285 2.6 GHz
  • Storage:
    		•  218.3 Terabytes of disk
  • Database:
    		•  DB2 Release 9.1
  • Operating System:
    		•  Solaris 10
  • Total 3 year Cost:
    		•  $1,136,536 USD
  • Other Performance Metrics
    		•
  • TPC-H Power:
    		•  51,320.0
  • TPC-H Throughput:
    		•  29,141.8
  • Database Load Time:
    		•  3 hours 39 minutes

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    IBM continues funny configurations on benchmarks.

    Tuesday Oct 16, 2007

    IBM just published a somewhat funny TPC-H results. IBM used 32 (4-core Power6 p570) systems in a clustered TPC-H. Some funny things:

    • Why 32 4-core systems instead of clustering eight 16-core systems? Both configurations are built from the same 4RU 4-core unit.
    • Why no IBM Power6 single-system TPC-H results? No stand-alone 16-core, 8-core, 4-core POWER6 results? Maybe they just don't stand on their own when you look at the performance?
    • Why did they use 96 x 36.4GB drives on 31 systems and 96 x 73.4GB drives only on server14?
    • Why did they use the smallest 36.4GB drives for most drives in the system?
    • If the un-discounted server hardware price for thirty-two 4-core systems is $7,042,378usd, what is the price of one 4-core system?
    • If the un-discounted server hardware price of $7,042,378usd, and 128 cores, what is the un-discounted price per core when configured in a 4-core system with 32GB?

    Disclosure statement

    IBM TPC-H 10000GB result on the IBM System p6 570 of 343,551.2 QphH@10000GB ($32.89usdd $/QphH@10000GB, avail. 4/15/2008) on a 32-node cluster of 4-core p570 (each with 2 POWER6 4.7 GHz processor chips, 4 cores, 8 threads) and 32GB of memory per node running DB2 Warehouse 9.5 on AIX 5L V5.3. Total disk capacity was 110,489.27 GB in a IBM Totalstorage DS4800 storage subsystem (using 36.4GB drives on 31 nodes and 73.4 GB drives on server 14) and 10Gigabit Ethernet for cluster interconnect. Source: http://www.tpc.org; Results current as of 10/15/07.

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    Record Price Perf TPC-H @300GB Sun Fire X4100 M2, Sybase IQ

    Monday Jun 04, 2007

    The Sun Fire X4100 M2 has 50% better price performance than the HP DL585. This benchmark result demonstrates that the Sun Fire X4100 M2, powered by 2 dual-core 3.0GHz Opteron, improves upon Sun's previously published world-record $/performance result at 300GB. The Sun Fire X4100 M2 is the only 1U system ever submitted for a TPC benchmark at the 300GB scale-factor.

    The Sun Fire X4100 M2 achieved the best price-performance among all systems at 300GB. It improved upon Sun's previous world-record price-performance, achieved by the Sun Fire X4200, by 6%.

    Note all of this detail, and the very different ways in which results are marketed with the IBM POWER6 post.

    The Sun Fire X4100 M2 achieved a 55% QphH@300GB improvement upon previously published 2-socket Single-core RevE Sun Fire X4200 result, i.e., 7641 QphH@300GB versus 4936 QphH@300GB.

    Specifically, Sun, using its Sun Fire X4100 M2 server achieved a $/QphH@300GB of $5.89, whereas the Sun Fire X4200 achieved a $/QphH@300GB of $6.29. The latter result was submitted on June 23, 2006.

    TPC-H @300GB Performance Results (sorted by $/QphH for single (non-clustered) systems:

    $/QphH = $/QphH@300GB TPC-H Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
    QphH = QphH@300GB TPC-H Composite Metric (bigger is better)
    Disk Data Ratio is the ratio of the total number of gigabytes of configured storage to the scale factor number of gigabytes (smaller is better)

    System Sockets/
    Cores/
    Threads CPU GHz    		 QphH Price/
    QphH
    		 Price
    in
    currency
    		 DBMS
    		 Available Disk
    Data
    Ratio
    		 Cluster
    Sun X4100 M2
    		 2/4/4 Opteron 3.0
    		 7641
    		 $5.89
    		 45,001 $US
    		 SybIQ
    		  6/23/06 3.17 N
    Sun X4100
    		 2/2/2 3.0 Opteron 4936
    		 $6.29
    		 31,033 $US
    		 SybIQ
    		  6/23/06 2.9 N
    HP DL585 G1
    		 4/8/8 Opteron 2.4
    		 12225 $11.71
    		 143,041 $US
    		 SQLS
    		 01/26/06
    		 19.9 N
    HP DL585 G2
    		 4/8/8 Opteron 2.8
    		 18298 $13.67
    		 250,057 $US
    		 SQLS
    		 04/19/07
    		 24.96 N
    IBM x3650 2/4/4 WoodC 3.0
    		 10165
    		 $15.40
    		 156,535 $US
    		 DB2
    		 10/06/06
    		 12.8
    		 N
    Sun V440
    		 4/4/4 US IIIi 1.6
    		 2501
    		 $22.09
    		 55,245 $US
    		 SybIQ
    		 05/09/05
    		 1.81
    		 N
    HP DL585 G1 4/8/8 Opteron 2.4
    		 11915
    		 $22.78
    		 271,379 $US
    		 DB2
    		 10/05/05 19.7
    		 N
    HP DL585 G1 4/4/4 Opteron 2.6
    		 8434
    		 $30.18
    		 255,586 $US
    		 DB2
    		 05/17/05 13.8
    		 N
    IBM eServer 366
    		 4/4/8 Xeon 3.6
    		7762
    		 $32.94
    		 255,702 $US
    		 DB2
    		 05/02/05
    		 18.5
    		 N

    The results reported here were performed on a Sun Fire X4100 M2 system running the Sybase IQ database manager. Sybase IQ is a special product designed specifically for data warehousing applications. Sybase IQ was developed as a totally separate product from the more widely known Sybase database management system (Sybase Adaptive Server).

    Sun achieved this result using only 14 disks. Other vendors used anywhere from  104 disks (the IBM x3650 result) to 208 disks (the HP DL585 G2 result).

    The significance of being able to house a data warehouse with fewer disks provides numerous advantages far beyond the scope of the TPC-H metrics. These include, ease of management, lower probability of admin errors, a much lower probability of disk failures and a true reduction in the total cost of ownership over the life of a system.

    All Sun/SybaseIQ submissions, including this one, RAID protect their storage. Only a few, of the almost 30 existing non-Sun submissions, at 300GB RAID protect their storage. The lack of RAID protection results in artificially cheaper configurations, which no production shop would ever deploy.

    Benchmark Description

    The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.

    TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.

    The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.

    Disclosure Statement:

    TPC-H @300GB Sun Fire X4100 M2 7641 QphH@300GB, $5.89/QphH@300GB, avail 5/25/07; TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.
    Audited Results

    		Database Size: 300 GB (Scale Factor 300)

    		TPC-H Composite: 7641 QphH@300GB

    		Price/performance: $5.89 / QphH@300GB

    		Available May 25, 2007
    Number of Systems: Sun Fire X4100 M2
    Total Processors, cores, Threads: 2,2,2
    Processor Dual-core Opteron 3.0GHz
    Storage: 951 Gigabytes of disk
    Database: Sybase IQ 12.6
    Operating System: Solaris 10
    Total 3 year Cost: $45,001.35
    Other Performance Metrics

    		TPC-H Power: 7847

    		TPC-H Throughput: 7440.5

    		Database Load Time  4 hours 22 minutes 53 seconds

    		Storage Ratio/type: 3.17 ratio/ two STK3320 SCSI JBOD array

    See Also

  • Sun Fire X4100 M2 TPC-H Executive Summary Report Acrobat PDF (68K)
  • Complete Sun Fire X4100 M2 TPC-H Full Disclosure Report Acrobat PDF (590K)
  • Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) Home Page
  • Ideas International Benchmark page

    • I'll even show my math, I challenge other vendors to show it too!

    6% claim from: (6.29-5.89)/6.29 = 0.0635
    50% claim from: (11.71-5.89)/11.71 = 0.4970 (49.7 rounds to 50)
    55% claim from: (7641-4936)/4936 = 0.5480 (54.8 rounds to 55)

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    Not comparing E25k & p595

    Tuesday Apr 10, 2007

    I would compare a 144 core Sun E25K vs. a 64-core IBM p595.

    IBM always pitches the more expensive slower p595 against an E25K, and thinks just because it has 64-cores it is better. Why?

  • The Sun Fire E25K 144-core is less expensive than a 64-core IBM p595, on the same application.
  • The Sun Fire E25K 144-core is faster than a 64-core IBM p595, on the same application.
  • Sun Fire E25K even has newer processors than used in the TPC-H result below. Last week we announced 1.95GHz.
  • I'm not sure but the Sun Fire E25K 144-core may even be smaller than the 64-core IBM p595.

    Hey wait they aren't comparable! I guess you buy IBM if you want something older, more costly, and slower. Aren't you glad you can still go to IBM and buy fewer cores. :)

    For some reason IBM thinks 64-cores sounds cheaper and faster than 144 cores, but it isn't true.

    Core count doesn't matter, systems matter! The straight scoop comes from Sun.

      IBM thinks it is about the core count or performance per core. Get real. It is about the whole system. You can do the math based on the info in the TPC-H submissions below...
      Sun: $4,207,126 /144 core = ?
      IBM: $5,358,874 /64 core = ?

      It is clear to see that IBM's cores each cost more than 2.5 times more than Sun's cores. Before you get too confused with 'rotten-to-the-core-math', just remember this. The IBM system costs more and the IBM system is a slower on the TPC-H benchmark. http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/database_world_record_sun_us.

      • The Sun Fire E25K 1.8GHz outperformed the IBM p5-595 (Power5+) by 14% and also had 31% better price/performance. Also beat the p595 by 26% on the multi-user test (Throughput).
      • The Sun Fire E25K beat the HP Integrity Superdome (Itanium2) by 60% on performance and 34% on price/performance. Sun also beat the Itanium2 Superdome by 72% for the multi-user test (Throughput).
      • Last week Sun announced Sun Fire E25K systems with 1.95GHz processors.

      TPC-H Disclosure Statement:

      Sun Fire E25K 114,713.7 QphH@3000GB, $36.68/QphH@3000GB, avail 04/09/07, HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL25p cluster 64p DC 110,576.5 QohH@3000GB, $37.80/QphH@3000GB avail 06/08/06, Sun Fire E25K 105430.9 QphH@3000GB, $54.87/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/23/06, IBM eServer p5 595 100,512.3 QphH@3000GB, $53.32/QphH@3000GB, avail 03/01/06, HP Integrity Superdome 71,847.8 QphH@3000GB, $55.79/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/18/06, Sun Fire E25K 59,435.7 QphH@3000GB, $100.66/QphH@3000GB, avail 07/27/05, TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.

      Several anon commenters keep bringing up licensing per core. Yes, Sun has more cores, but the pricing listed in this posting accounts for that. Sun is lower cost even with more than double the cores of IBM.

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    • Database World record Sun US-IV+ beats IBM power5+ again

    Monday Apr 09, 2007

    World Record Performance and World Record Single-System Price/Performance: The Sun Fire E25K (UltraSPARC IV+), Sun StorEdge 6140 Arrays, and running Solaris 10 combined with Oracle 10g achieved World Record TPC-H performance of 114,713.7 QphH@3000GB and World Record price/performance of $36.68/QphH@3000GB for non- clustered systems. The Sun Fire E25K had the best price/performance of the top six performing systems.

    ...and remember this was done with 1.8GHz US-IV+, last week Sun announced 1.95GHz and 2.1GHz, see previous blog postings for results on those processors. The future holds more interesting postings, keep checking back...

    • The Sun Fire E25K outperformed the IBM p5-595 (Power5+) by 14% and also had 31% better price/performance. Also beat the p595 by 26% on the multi-user test (Throughput).
    • The Sun Fire E25K beat the HP Integrity Superdome (Itanium2) by 60% on performance and 34% on price/performance. Sun also beat the Itanic Superdome by 72% for the multi-user test (Throughput).
    • The Sun Fire E25K configured with Sun StorEdge 6140 arrays delivered huge IO performance of over 21 GB/sec which is made possible by a delivered Memory Bandwidth of 62 GB/sec.
    • The TPC-H result demonstrates that the Sun Fire E25K can handle the increasingly large databases required of DSS systems. The Sun Fire E25K delivered more than 18 GB/sec of real delivered IO throughput with Oracle 10g.
    • This result demonstrates effectiveness of Solaris 10 running Oracle 10g. Oracle has chosen Solaris 10 as its preferred Open Source 64-bit Development and Deployment environment. There was hardly any OS tuning needed. The /etc/system and /etc/project file has a basic set of parameters for a large system.

    TPC-H @3000GB Performance Chart (QphH = the Composite Metric, bigger is better)

    $/QphH = Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
    QppH = Power Numerical Quantity
    QthH = Throughput Numerical Quantity

    System Composite
    (QphH)    		 3 Year Total
    System Cost    		 $/perf
    ($/QphH)    		 Power
    (QppH)    		 Thruput
    (QthH)    		  
    #Proc    		 Disk
    GB
    Sun Fire E25K 114,713.7 $4,207,126 $36.68 136,798.4 96,194.3 72 63.3 TB
    HP Proliant BL25p 110,576.5 $4,179,238 $37.80 116,379.3 105,063.0 64 69.6 TB
    Sun Fire E25K 105,430.9 $5,784,902 $54.87 121,805.8 91,257.4 72 94.8 TB
    IBM p5 595 100,512.3 $5,358,874 $53.32 132,598.2 76,190.5 64 37.7 TB
    HP Integrity Superdome 71,847.8 $4,008,065 $55.79 92,335.6 55,905.9 64 40.6 TB
    Sun Fire E25K 59,435.7 $5,982,737 $100.66 73,686.8 59,435.7 72 84.4 TB
    IBM xSeries 346 54,465.9 $1,761,686 $32.34 90,854.7 32,651.4 64 25.6 TB
    HP Integrity Superdome 30,956.6 $2,326,457 $75.16 41,779.5 22,937.4 32 19.6 TB


    System  
    Procs    		  
    Cluster    		 Proc
    GHz    		 Proc Type OS Database RDBMS+HW
    Avail
    Sun Fire E25K 72 N 1.8 UltraSPARC IV+ Solaris 10 Oracle 10g 04/09/2007
    HP ProLiant BL25p 64 Y 2.6 AMD Opteron 285 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Oracle 10g 06/08/2006
    Sun Fire E25K 72 N 1.5 UltraSPARC IV+ Solaris 10 Oracle 10g 01/27/2006
    IBM p5 595 64 N 1.9 POWER 5 AIX 5L V5.3 Oracle 10g 03/01/2006
    HP Integrity Superdome 64 N 1.6 Itanium2 HP-UX 11.i V2 Oracle 10g 01/18/2006
    Sun Fire E25K 72 N 1.2 UltraSPARC IV Solaris 10 Oracle 10g 07/27/2005
    IBM xSeries 346 64 Y 3.6 Intel Xeon Suse Linux DB2 UDB 8.2 08/15/2005
    HP Integrity Superdome 32 N 1.6 Itanium2 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft SQL Server 05/05/2006

    Benchmark Description

    The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.

    TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.

    The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.

    Disclosure Statement:

    Sun Fire E25K 114,713.7 QphH@3000GB, $36.68/QphH@3000GB, avail 04/09/07, HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL25p cluster 64p DC 110,576.5 QohH@3000GB, $37.80/QphH@3000GB avail 06/08/06, Sun Fire E25K 105430.9 QphH@3000GB, $54.87/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/23/06, IBM eServer p5 595 100,512.3 QphH@3000GB, $53.32/QphH@3000GB, avail 03/01/06, HP Integrity Superdome 71,847.8 QphH@3000GB, $55.79/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/18/06, Sun Fire E25K 59,435.7 QphH@3000GB, $100.66/QphH@3000GB, avail 07/27/05, TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.

    See Also:

    Oracle Press Release (oracle.com)

    Oracle Press Release (yahoo.com)

    Ideas International Benchmark page

    Result details

  • Audited Results
    		•
  • DB Size:
    		•  3000 GB (Scale Factor 3000)
  • Composite:
    		•  114,713.7 QphH@3000GB
  • $/perf:
    		•  $36.68/QphH@3000GB
  • Available:
    		•  April 9, 2007
  • System:
    		•  One Sun Fire E25K
  • Processors:
    		•  72 UltraSPARC IV+ 1.8 GHz / 2MB L2 Cache, 32 MB L3 Cache
  • Storage:
    		•  63.3 Terabytes of disk
  • Database:
    		•  Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 2 with Partitioning & Automatic Storage Management
  • OS:
    		•  Solaris 10 Update 3
  • Total 3 year Cost:
    		•  $4,207,126
  • Other Metrics
    		•
  • TPC-H Power:
    		•  136,798.4
  • Throughput:
    		•  96,194.3
  • DB Load Time:
    		•  4 hours 52 minutes

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