Oracle Sets World Record Result on SAP(R) Sales and Distribution-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark Running the SAP Enhanc

Demonstrating the superior performance and high availability of the Oracle solution, including [ Oracle Database 11g ] and Oracle's new [ Sun x86-based server ], Oracle today announced a world record result on the SAP® Sales and Distribution-Parallel (SD-Parallel) standard application benchmark running the SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application(1).
[ Oracle Database 11g ] and [ Oracle Real Application Clusters ] running on two of the newest Sun Fire x4470 servers, each with four Intel® Xeon® x7560 2.26 GHz (eight) processors, [ Oracle Solaris ] operating system and [ Sun Storage ] F5100 Flash Array with FlashFire technology, achieved 21,000 SAP SD-Parallel benchmark users.
Oracle's eight-processor result demonstrated more than double the performance of the best published four-processor results on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark that used Intel® Xeon® X7560-based hardware, which was running IBM DB2 on IBM System x3850 X5 server(2).
Additionally, Oracle surpassed an eight-processor Microsoft SQL Server result, running on an HP DL980 G7 with Windows, of 18,180 SAP SD benchmark users on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark(3)(4).

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"This benchmark result demonstrates that Oracle has delivered better performance results than IBM or Microsoft when running the SAP SD-Parallel standard application benchmark," said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. "Furthermore, the Microsoft and IBM benchmark results are not on a highly available platform. With this result, Oracle has demonstrated that Oracle Real Application Clusters can produce higher performance while running on a fully active and highly available cluster."

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Results as of June 28, 2010. Source: SAP, [ www.sap.com/benchmark ].

(1) The SAP SD-Parallel standard application benchmark performed on May 07, 2010, by Oracle in Burlington, MA, USA, has been certified with the following data:

Number of SAP SD-Parallel benchmark users: 21,000
SAPS: 115,300
Operating system, central server: Oracle Solaris 10
RDBMS: Oracle 11g Real Application Clusters (RAC)
SAP Business Suite software: SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0
Configuration:
Two servers (2 active nodes): Oracle/Sun Fire X4470, 4 processors / 32 cores / 64 threads,
Intel Xeon Processor X7560, 2.26 GHz, 256 GB main memory
Certification number: 2010029

(2) The two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark performed on March 13, 2010, by IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, was certified on March 30, 2010, with the following data:

Number of SAP SD benchmark users: 10,450
SAPS: 57,120
Operating system: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
RDBMS: DB2 9.7
SAP Business Suite software: SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0
Configuration:
IBM System x3850 X5, 4 processors / 32 cores / 64 threads,
Intel Xeon Processor X7560, 2.26 GHz, 256 GB main memory
Certification number: 2010012

(3) The two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark performed on June 06, 2010, by HP in Houston, TX, USA, with the following data:

Number of SAP SD benchmark users: 18,180
SAPS: 99,320
Operating system: Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition
RDBMS: SQL Server 2008
SAP Business Suite software: SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0
Configuration: HP ProLiant DL980 G7, 8 processors / 64 cores / 128 threads, Intel Xeon Processor X7560, 2.26 GHz, 512 GB main memory
Certification number: 2010028

(4) Note regarding SAP SD-Parallel standard application benchmark vs. SAP SD standard application benchmark: The SAP SD-Parallel standard application benchmark runs the business transactions of the SAP SD standard application benchmark on more than one active database server. To create maximum load and contention for the database and the application servers, the data is distributed round robin. See benchmark description at [ www.sap.com/benchmark ] for details. The SAP SD-Parallel benchmark consists of the same transactions and user interaction steps as the SAP SD benchmark. This means that the SAP SD-Parallel standard application benchmark runs the same business processes as the SAP SD standard application benchmark. The difference between the benchmarks is the technical data distribution.

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Oracle Sets World Record Result on SAP(R) Sales and Distribution-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark Running the SAP Enhanc