Oracle DB On Fujitsu Server Cluster Delivers Record Result On SAP BI-D Benchmark

Oracle’s result on the SAP Business Intelligence-Data Mart (BI-D) Standard Application Benchmark is out today and the company has surpassed the best IBM DB2 result on this benchmark till date with more than six times the performance.

On a system comprising a four-node Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 cluster, each equipped with a two-socket, quad-core Intel Xeon x5570 2.93 GHZ processor, Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux delivered a result of 1,165,742 query navigation steps per hour on the SAP BI-D Standard Application Benchmark. Oracle and Fujitsu also delivered a three-node result with 900,309 query navigation steps per hour.

When measured from one-node, two-node, three-node and four-node configurations, as documented and certified by SAP, Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters demonstrated near linear scalability by achieving 320,363 (one-node), 609,349 (two-node), 900,309 (three-node) and 1,165,742 (four-node) query navigation steps per hour.