Oracle and HP Announce Data Warehousing Benchmark

Oracle and HP today reached a new world record TPC-H 10 terabyte (TB) data warehousing benchmark result for Oracle® Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters running HP-UX 11i v2 on two HP Integrity Superdome servers.

"Our Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers running Oracle Real Application Clusters exceeded our expectations, delivering a threefold performance improvement over our previous IBM RISC-based system running on AIX, while still driving down our total cost of ownership," said Jeff Knight, vice president of Technology and Vendor Relations, First Trust.

This highlights the scalability and cost leadership of Oracle Database 10g and HP Integrity Superdome servers by outperforming IBM DB2's best TPC-H 10 TB result using 20 percent fewer processors, while offering more than 33 percent better price/performance1.

Data warehouse performance is a requirement in today's fast moving global markets. Robust, highly scalable data warehouses allow executives and data analysts to scour vast repositories of customer and market information with decision support tools to uncover new strategic markets and identify opportunities to streamline costs.

"This benchmark demonstrates that HP is committed to offering our customers a business intelligence platform with the greatest power at the best price/performance in the industry," said Rich Marcello, senior vice president and general manager of Business Critical Servers, HP.

HP Integrity servers, based on the industry standard Intel Itanium 2 processor, are known for driving unique customer value from their unparalleled flexibility, mission-critical reliability, and highly scalable, industry-leading performance.