Sun Fire(TM) E25K Server Running Oracle Database 10g and Solaris(TM) 10 Sets Record-Breaking Three-Terabyte Data Warehousing Benchmark Result

Sun Fire(TM) E25K Server Running Oracle Database 10g and Solaris(TM) 10 Sets Record-Breaking Three-Terabyte Data Warehousing Benchmark Result

Large SMP server achieves world record performance on TPC-H SF3000 Benchmark

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 31
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) today announced a record-breaking data warehousing performance result of 59,435.7 QphH@3000GB at a price-performance of $114.00/QphH@3000GB, with the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-H SF3000 benchmark. This result was achieved on a 72-way 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC(R) IV processor-based Sun Fire(TM) E25K with Sun StorEdge(TM) arrays, running the industry-leading Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) and Oracle(TM) Database 10g with Automatic Storage Management. This result demonstrates the performance leadership of the Sun UltraSPARC and Solaris on large SMP platforms and Oracle Database 10g with the most demanding enterprise application environments.

The Sun Fire E25K system outperformed the nearest competitor system(1) by over 30 percent on the TPC-H(TM) composite metric, QphH@3000GB, which is a measure of high load throughput as well as single query performance. This benchmark has no single system results on IBM Power4 or IBM Power5 servers.

The system was configured with 96 Sun StorEdge(TM) 3510 FC disk arrays. A feature of Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Automatic Storage Management is a database files system that provides cluster file system and volume manager functionality. Oracle Automatic Storage Management delivers the performance of raw asynchronous I/O with the ease of management of a file system.

Sun has an extensive history of delivering world record performance and scalability. With the new UltraSPARC IV processors and high-performance IO capabilities, Sun continues to meet the needs of the most demanding data warehousing and transaction processing requirements. The system was able to deliver 18 GB/sec IO bandwidth which demonstrates the capability of Solaris 10 and the StorEdge 3510 FC array storage to deliver real world IO performance.

About the TPC-H Benchmark

Established by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), the TPC-H(TM) benchmark is an industry-standard Decision Support test designed to measure systems' capability to examine large volumes of data, execute queries with a high degree of complexity, and give answers to critical business questions. The TPC-H benchmark evaluates a composite performance metric (QphH@size) and a price/performance metric ($/QphH@size) that measure the performance of various decision support systems by the execution of sets of queries against a standard database under controlled conditions.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com/.

About Oracle

Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Sun Fire, StorEdge, UltraSPARC, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates.

TPC-H, QphH and $/QphH are trademarks of the TPC. For additional information on the TPC-H benchmark, please visit the Transaction Processing Performance Council's Web site at http://www.tpc.org/

As of 01/31/05: The Sun Fire 25K system delivered 59,435.7 QphH@3000GB at a price performance of $114/QphH@3000GB, and with a scheduled availability of 07/27/05. The HP Integrity Superdome delivered 45,247.8 QphH@3000GB, $109/QphH@3000GB, with a scheduled availability of 03/25/04.(1)

TPC-H, QphH and $/QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). For additional information on the TPC-H benchmark, please visit the TPC's Web site at http://www.tpc.org/.

Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Ltd.


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Terri Molini
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(650) 786-7983
terri.molini@sun.com

Dan Dent
Citigate Cunningham for Sun
(617) 374-4233
ddent@citigatecunningham.com

www.sun.com/news
Contact: allpress@sun.com


Source: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

CONTACT: Terri Molini of Sun Microsystems, Inc., +1-650-786-7983 or
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