Linux Sets New World Performance Record

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The first TPC-H one-terabyte benchmark on Linux has just been achieved.The honor goes to Oracle Database 10g with a record-setting result of 9,950.7 QphH@1000GB.The achievement is the result of a 3-way collaboration between 1. Lenovo - a Chinese hardware manufacturer and member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork 2. Oracle's China Development Center in Beijing 3. Oracle's Server Technologies Group in Redwood Shores, CA. Details of the system benchmarked:    * a four-node Lenovo Cluster Server DeepComp 6800, each with four Intel Itanium 2 1.3 GHz processors running Oracle® Database 10g with Real Application Clusters and the Linux operating system. The record-setting result of 9,950.7 QphH@1000GB  - TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric  - certainly corroborates Oracle's claims of high performance on Linux using clustering technology."This was the first time Oracle and Lenovo conducted a benchmark together and we successfully delivered the first one-terabyte benchmark on Linux," said Kevin Walsh, head of the Oracle China Development Center and vice president of Internet Technologies for Oracle.According to Oracle, their Database 10g is "designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small servers to the biggest SMP servers and from clusters to enterprise grids" and features automated tuning and management capabilities. 10g makes it possible, the company says, to natively manage all data from traditional business information to OLAP, to XML documents, to spatial/location information.To date only IBM DB2 and Oracle Database 10g have cluster results in the TPC-H 1TB scale factor category.

ArticlePretty technical but a great thing for Linux