HP Earns Highest OLTP Results; Leading High-end Server Vendor Posts Highest TPC-C Performance with Single Oracle Database

Business Wire, Nov 3, 1998

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1998-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced better Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark C (TPC-C)(1) results than all single-instance Oracle results to date, demonstrating the superior technology of HP's powerful HP 9000 V-Class Enterprise Server featuring HP's HyperPlane architecture and HP 64-bit PA-RISC(2) CPU technology.

The TPC-C results achieved on the HP 9000 V2200 Enterprise Server running Oracle8 Enterprise Database Server v8.1.5 delivered 40,794 transactions per minute-C (tpmC) performance at a price/performance of $104/tpmC and convincingly beats all current single-instance Oracle TPC-C results. The results prove the superiority of HP's V-Class HyperPlane architecture, which offers customers more end-to-end 64-bit computing power and a higher-performance solution at a lower cost than competitors.

"For enterprise customers requiring speedy, online transaction processing response time, today's results prove that, with its demonstrated power, performance and growth path, the HP 9000 V2200 is ideally suited to meet their needs," said Janice Chaffin, general manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. "Customers also can be assured that HP and Oracle will continue to work closely together to provide optimized, integrated technology at the highest performance and availability, and lowest cost of ownership."

The following table shows the top single-instance Oracle TPC-C results from HP and other vendors. A complete listing of results is posted on the Transaction Processing Performance Council Web site at http://www.tpc.org. -0-

TPC-C Benchmark

System                     tpmC    $/tpmC    No. of     Availability
                                              CPUs

HP 9000 V2200             40,794    $104        16      Feb. 28, 1999
Enterprise Server
Sun Ultra                 31,147    $109        22      Dec. 15, 1997
Enterprise 6000
c/s
IBM RS/6000               34,139     $89        12      Jan. 21, 1999
Enterprise Server

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HP V-Class Enterprise Servers

The HP 9000 V-Class Enterprise Server family provides robust, high-end 64-bit solutions for online transaction processing, enterprise resource planning and server consolidation. These high-end servers have the ability to power corporate core functions as well as the extended enterprise. Specifically, the V-Class Enterprise Server is ideal for data-center, data-warehouse and high-end-compute server applications. Fundamental to the V-Class Enterprise Server family's leading performance is the following: -0-

--     64-bit PA-RISC technology (PA-8200);

--     scalable architecture with HP's HyperPlane technology; and

--     64-bit HP-UX(3) operating environment.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year.

Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

(1) The TPC-C benchmark is an industry-standard benchmark used to simulate a complete computing environment where a population of terminal operators executes transactions against a database. It was developed by the Transaction Processing Performance Council, an independent organization formed by contributing member companies across the computer industry. It involves a mix of five concurrent transactions of different types and complexity executed either online or queued for deferred execution. TPC-C is measured in transactions per minute (tpmC).

(2) PA-RISC stands for Precision Architecture-reduced- instruction-set computing.

(3) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64- bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products.

UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.

Oracle is a registered U.S. trademark of Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, California.