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Oracle 10g Sets Record On PRIMEPOWER 450/2500 Servers

Oracle and Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced that Oracle Application Server 10g set a new performance world record result for the SPECjAppServer 2002 MultipleNode benchmark. The benchmark was established on Solaris/SPARC(R)64V-based PRIMEPOWER 450/2500 servers of the Fujitsu group of companies (Fujitsu Limited/Asia-Pacific, Fujitsu Computer Systems/North America and Fujitsu Siemens Computers/EMEA) as well as Fujitsu Siemens Computers' openSEAS product suite. Oracle's record result delivered 33 percent higher performance than the previous SPECjAppServer2002 MultipleNode record held by BEA Weblogic.

Oracle Application Server 10g together with Oracle Database 10g achieved a record 5,991.73 TOPS@MultipleNode (Total Operations Per Second) with a price-performance of 654.20 Euros/TOPS@MultipleNode. The database was running on one Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 server with 56 SPARC64V 1.3 GHz processors. The J2EE application servers were 9 Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 450 servers each with 4 SPARC64V 1.32 GHz processors. Both were running the Solaris 9 operating environment.

With this new benchmark world record the PRIMEPOWER servers clearly demonstrate their performance and outstanding capability running mission-critical environments. Therefore PRIMEPOWER servers are a preferred choice for users of large databases and business-critical applications. On the same hardware configuration, but with Oracle9i Database Release 2, Oracle Application Server 10g achieved 5,221.63 TOPS with a price-performance of 750.68 Euros/TOPS@MultipleNode; this result is ranked second in MultipleNode performance. Thus, switching to Oracle Database 10g increased performance by nearly 15 percent.

"These benchmarks demonstrate our ability to deliver industry leading performance with Oracle Application Server 10g in combination with the powerful PRIMEPOWER hardware platform and the Solaris operating environment," said Richard Sarwal, vice president of server performance for Oracle Corp. "Oracle has repeatedly established world records in J2EE Application Server benchmarks, starting with ECperf and continuing with SPECjAppServer2001 and SPECjAppServer2002."

"This result again shows the outstanding performance of our PRIMEPOWER for data center environments and Oracle Application Server 10g," added Dieter Herzog, executive vice president of enterprise products at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "Customers choose PRIMEPOWER servers to run their mission-critical infrastructures; they want to combine the performance, reliability and resource utilization with the seamless integration into their data centers."

SPECjAppServer 2002 is a client/server benchmark for measuring the performance of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE-based application servers using a subset of J2EE APIs in a complete end-to-end Java application. It is the only industry-accepted benchmark to measure J2EE platform performance connecting into a database and is designed to model a manufacturing, supply-chain management and order/inventory environment.