IBM DB2 Universal Database Continues Performance Record on Industry Leading Benchmarks

Market Wire, July, 2004

IBM today announced breakthrough online transaction processing benchmark results for IBM's DB2 Universal Database software running on the new IBM eServer p5-570.

According to the Transaction Processing Performance Council, IBM's DB2 Stinger, the code name for the next release of its DB2 Universal Database software, established a new world record for performance on the TPC-C benchmark. Running on a 16-way server, DB2 Stinger surpassed competitive results on systems with up to 4 times more CPU's. These results confirm that DB2 is the fastest transaction processing database. (1)

IBM's DB2 database further demonstrated performance leadership for packaged applications with new benchmark publications on the SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark. DB2 shattered the best Oracle result by 73 percent in an 8-CPU configuration and by 76 percent in a 16-CPU configuration. (2)

Today's news reinforces IBM's DB2 database performance leadership with IBM eServer pSeries. DB2 is the only database product to ever hold world record results in each of the most recognized database benchmarks:

--  Fastest OLTP database -- achieving the highest scalability of any
    transaction processing system ever demonstrated on a single server using
    half the processors of the best non-clustered Oracle TPC-C result and 34
    percent better price/performance. (3)

--  Most powerful performance for business intelligence -- demonstrating
    26 percent better complex query performance at the largest published TPC-H
    database size of 10 terabytes. (4)

--  Most scaleable ERP database  -- supporting 83 percent more users than
    the closest competitor on SAP SD. (5)
    

DB2 Stinger is currently in beta and expected to be available later this year. The new offering delivers 200 new features that simplify database administration, streamline application development, and increase performance and scalability. DB2 Stinger delivers industry leading technologies like autonomic database management, developer productivity, three-dimensional geospatial data that is "location" and "time-and-space" aware, and is setting the standard for the next generation of information management deployments.

About IBM's Information Management Portfolio

There are more than 60 million DB2 users from 425,000 companies worldwide relying on IBM DB2 Information Management Solutions. IBM is the only data management software vendor to provide customers with integrated solutions for database management, tools, content management, enterprise information integration and business intelligence. For more information please visit http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/

All results current as of July 13, 2004

(1) 809,144 tpmC, 4.95 $/tpmC, available as of 09/30/04, fastest database claim based on comparison of tpmC achieved per CPU

(2) For SAP SD 2-tier: DB2 UDB v8.1 achieved 5,056 users and 506,000 fully processed line items/hour with an average response time of 1.99 seconds running on 16-way IBM eServer p5-570 vs. Oracle 9i with 2,880 users and 289,000 fully processed line items/hour with an average response time of 1.95 seconds running on 16-way HP rx8620 (cert # 2003062). DB2 UDB v8.1 achieved 2,600 users and 260,330 fully processed line items/hour with an average response time of 1.99 seconds running on 8-way IBM eServer p5-570 vs. Oracle 9i with 1,500 users and 150,670 fully processed line items/hour with an average response time of 1.95 seconds running on 8-way HP rx7620 (cert # 2003045). The SAP certification numbers for the IBM results were not available at press time and can be found at www.sap.com/benchmark.

(3) 1,025,486 tpmC, $5.43/tpmC; Available: 08/16/2004

(4) 62,214 QphH @ 10000 GB; 266$/ QphH @10000 GB;System Availability: 05/15/2003

(5) SAP SD 3-tier: DB2 UDB v8.1 achieved 47,528 users and 4,799,330 fully processed line items/hour with an average response time of 188 seconds running on 32-way IBM eServer p690 (cert # 2002053) vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with 26,000 users and 2,606,000 fully processed line items/hour with an average response time of 1.97 seconds running on 32-way Unisys ES7000 (cert # 2002007).

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