Oracle and Sun Announce World?s Largest TPC-H Data Warehouse Benchmark

📅 April 17, 2001 - Oracle Corp. (oracle.com), a leading provider of software for e-business, and Sun Microsystems Inc. (sun.com), a leader in network computing products and services, announced on Tuesday their success in achieving the world's first three-terabyte TPC-H result.
Established by the Transaction Processing Council, the TPC-H benchmark is the standard decision support test, designed to measure a system's capability to examine large volumes of data and execute highly complex queries. The benchmark measures the performance of decision support systems by executing sets of queries against a standard database under controlled conditions, and delivering performance rating.
The two companies achieved their three-terabyte result by achieving a score of 10,764.7 QphH@3000GB, and a price performance of $1,222/QphH@3000GB. And the result tops the previous TPC-H record of one terabyte, held by IBM. Oracle and Sun say the test was intended to demonstrate their leadership in delivering the most demanding applications for very large databases. The new standard was achieved running Oracle9I Database on two Sun Enterprise 10000 servers, also known as Starfire, with a total of 128 processors. The companies say that the result is proof that Oracle running on the Starfire system today can scale the largest volumes of data and workloads.
The Sun Enterprise 10000 systems, combined with Sun Cluster software and Sun StorEdge solutions, running Oracle 9.0.1 software and Solaris 8 Operating Environment software were configured with a total of 128 gigabytes of memory. And the TPC-H result was obtained on a 3TB data warehouse, the largest ever certified for a TPC-H benchmark. The total system cost $13,155,003, including hardware, software and maintenance
According to the companies, the Sun-Oracle configuration can provide mainframe-class reliability for data warehousing in support of mixed workloads such as e-commerce.