Oracle Database on Sun Fire Server Delivers Outstanding Performance

Oracle® Sets New World Record Result for a Two-Processor Server running SAP ERP 6.0, Enhancement Pack 4 with the Two-Tier SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark

Redwood Shores, CA, March 30, 2009 -- Today, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced a world record result on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark for a two-processor server running the SAP ERP 6.0, Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode).(1)

On a system configuration comprised of a Sun Fire™ X4270 server equipped with two new Intel® Xeon® x5570, quad-core (2 processor/8 cores/16 threads) 2.93 GHz processors, Oracle Database running on the Solaris™ 10 Operating System achieved 3,700 SAP SD Benchmark users.

The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark measures the system performance to process dialog steps and order line item postings per hour for SAP solution-based transactions. A transaction consists of a full business process that captures activities from the full order processing cycle from order creation to delivery to invoicing.

“Oracle continues to deliver world-record results in both the two-tier SAP SD and SAP SD-Parallel Standard Application benchmarks,” (2,3) said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. “The latest two-tier SAP SD benchmark result demonstrates the undeniable speed and scalability of Oracle Database.”

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1. The SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark performed on March 18, 2009 by Sun Microsystems in Burlington, MA, USA, has been certified with the following data: Number of SAP SD benchmark users: 3,700. Average dialog response time: 0.94 seconds. Fully processed order line items/hour: 406,000. Dialog steps/hour: 1,218,000. SAPS: 20,300
Average database request time (dialog/update): 0.017 sec / 0.015 sec
CPU utilization of central server: 99%. Operating system, central server: Solaris 10. RDBMS: Oracle 10g. SAP Business Suite software: SAP ERP 6.0, Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode). Configuration: Central server: Sun Fire X4270, 2 processors / 8 cores / 16 threads, Intel Xeon Processor X5570, 2.93 GHz, 64 KB L1 cache and 256 KB L2 cache per core 8 MB L3 cache per processor, 48 GB main memory. Certification Number: 2009005.
2. The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark performed on June 28, 2008 by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu has been certified with the following data: 39,100 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.94 seconds average dialog response time, 3,931,330 fully processed order line items per hour, 11,794,000 dialog steps per hour, 196,570 SAPS. Server configuration: SPARC Enterprise Server M9000, 64 processors/256 cores/512 threads, SPARC 64 VII, 2.52 GHZ, 64 KB (D) + 64 KB (1) L1 cache per core, 6 MB L2 cache per processor, 1024 GB main memory, running Solaris 10, Oracle Database 10g and SAP ERP 6.0. Certification Number 2008042.
3. The SAP SD-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark performed on November 26, 2007 by IBM in Beaverton, OR, USA has been certified with the following data: 37,040 SAP SD-Parallel Benchmark users, 1.86 seconds average dialog response time, 3,749,000 fully processed order line items per hour, 11,247,000 dialog steps per hour, 187,450 SAPS. Server configuration: IBM System p 570, 8 processors/16 cores/32 threads, POWER6, 4.7 GHz, 128 KB L1 cache and 4 MB L2 cache per core, 32 MB L3 cache per processor, 128 GM main memory, running AIX 5L version 5.3, Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters and SAP ERP 6.0. Certification Number: 2008013

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