Oracle WebLogic Server Delivers Highest JOPS per Core of any Result ever Published

Oracle® Fusion Middleware Delivers World Record Two-Socket, Single-Node Result with SPECjAppServer2004 Benchmark on Dell PowerEdge Server

Redwood Shores, CA, March 30, 2009 -- Today Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today announced that Oracle® WebLogic Server, a strategic component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle JRockit, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle Database 11g running on a Dell PowerEdge server, set a world record two-socket, single-node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark. (1)

Showcasing the superior performance and scalability of Oracle Fusion Middleware, with Oracle WebLogic Server’s advanced application grid capabilities, this benchmark delivered the highest performance per core of any result ever published.

Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 Standard Edition with Oracle JRockit and Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, achieved 3,975 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations per Second). The Java Application Server was running on a Dell PowerEdge R610 server with a two-socket Intel® Xeon® x5570 quad-core 2.93 GHz processor.

Oracle Database 11g was running on a Dell PowerEdge R900 server with a four-socket Intel Xeon x7460 hex-core 2.66 GHz processor. Both application server and database machines were running Oracle Enterprise Linux.

For more than five years, Oracle has submitted record-setting application server benchmarks on a broad range of hardware and software platforms. Oracle is the performance and price/performance leader in multiple SPECjAppServer 2001 (2) and SPECjAppServer2002 (3) benchmark categories and also holds the world records for best performance and price/performance in the Ecperf (4) benchmark of J2EE application servers reported in July 2002.

SPECjAppServer2004 is a multi-tier benchmark for measuring the performance of a representative J2EE application and each of the components that make up the application environment, including hardware, application server software, JVM software, database software, JDBC drivers and the system network. For more information, visit spec.org/jAppServer2004.

Quotes:
“Achieving the highest score ever on a two-socket, single node benchmark reaffirms that Oracle WebLogic Server is the industry’s leading platform for building and running enterprise applications and services,” said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. “This result, combined with other recent SPECj world-record scores, demonstrates that Oracle WebLogic Server is a superior performing application server, regardless of hardware or operating system.”

“The new Dell 11th generation PowerEdge R610 servers were designed to lead the industry in performance to let our customers get the data they need to run their business efficiently,” said Sally Stevens, director of Platform Marketing, Dell. “This world record two-socket, single node benchmark Oracle has achieved with the PowerEdge R610 is a great indication that companies will be able to run their enterprise application effectively on our servers.”

1 Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3 on Dell PowerEdge 610 with two-socket Intel® Xeon® x5570 quad-core 2.93 GHz processor, 3,975 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (497 JOPS per core).
2 Sun Microsystems SunFire V1280 with Oracle9i Application Server, 521.86Bops/min@Std, $1,133.64/BBops (Best performance SPECjAppServer 2001 Dual Node category). Oracle9i AS Release 2 Standard Edition on HP ProLiant DL360, 183.33 BBops/min@Std, $325.13/BBops (Best price performance SPECjAppServer2001 Dual Node category). Oracle9iAS Release 2 on HP rp8400 Cluster, 2,529.10 BBops, $1342.74/Bbops (Best performance SPECjAppServer2001 MultipleNode category). Oracle9iAS Release 2 on HP ProLiant ML530G2 Cluster, 558.85 BBops/min@Std, $389.66/BBops (Best price performance SPECjAppServer2001MultipleNode category). Source: spec.org. For more information regarding SPECjAppServer2001 results, visit: spec.org/jAppServer2001/results/jAppServer2001.html.
3 Fujitsu-Siemens Computers' PRIMEPOWER 450/2500, Oracle Application Server 10g: 5,991.73 TOPS@MultipleNode, 654.20 Euros TOPS@MultipleNode (Best Overall Performance Result, SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark).
4 Sun Fire 3800 cluster with Oracle9i AS Release 2, 61,862.77 BBops/min@Std, $28/BBops (Best Overall Performance, ECperf benchmark). HP DL360G2 cluster with Oracle9i AS Release 2, 24,639.37 BBops/min@Std, $5/BBops (Best Overall price/performance, ECperf benchmark). For more information regarding ECperf benchmark results, visit: web.archive.org/web/20050306014256/ecperf.theserverside.com/ecperf/index.jsp?page=results/performance.

Source: Oracle