Oracle today announced a new world record TPC-H 10 Terabyte benchmark result for Oracle Database 11g, representing the fastest performance result for a non-clustered configuration and leadership price-performance overall. Along with this achievement, Oracle Database also holds world record performance results for the Three TB and 30 TB TPC-H scale factors, showcasing the software's superior data warehousing capabilities.

    The TPC Benchmark H (TPC-H) is a decision support benchmark. It consists of a suite of business oriented ad-hoc queries and concurrent data modifications. The queries and the data populating the database have been chosen to have broad industry-wide relevance. This benchmark illustrates decision support systems that examine large volumes of data, execute queries with a high degree of complexity, and give answers to critical business questions.

    Running on an HP Integrity Superdome server with 64 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 1.6 GHz processors using the HP-UX 11i v3 operating environment and HP StorageWorks Arrays, Oracle Database 11g achieved a world record non-clustered performance of 208,457.7 QphH@10000GB with a record-setting price-performance ratio of $27.97/QphH@10000GB.

    The performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@Size), and reflects multiple aspects of the capability of the system to process queries. These aspects include the selected database size against which the queries are executed, the query processing power when queries are submitted by a single stream, and the query throughput when queries are submitted by multiple concurrent users. The TPC-H Price/Performance metric is expressed as $/QphH@Size.

    "These latest benchmark results on the HP Integrity Superdome further validate Oracle's leadership in data warehousing," stated Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. "Oracle Database 11g provides a comprehensive foundation for data warehousing that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, integrated analytics and embedded integration and data-quality capabilities."

    Oracle Database is the only database designed for grid computing. With more than 400 new features, 36,000 person-months of development, and 15 million test hours, Oracle Database 11g is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever, enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly. Oracle Database 11g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers.