Oracle® Database 11g Sets New World Record For Price/Performance with TPC-C Benchmark

Continuing to lead the TPC-C benchmark price/performance category, Oracle and HP have set a new world record for Oracle® Database 11g Standard Edition One running on Oracle Enterprise Linux.(1) With this result, Oracle now holds the top five record benchmark positions in the Top Ten TPC-C price/performance category. Achieving 232,002 transactions per minute with a price/performance of $.54USD/tpmC, Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One with Oracle Enterprise Linux running on an HP ProLiant ML350 G6 server with a single-socket Intel® Xeon® E5520 quad-core processor and HP Smart Array P411 controller delivered the best price-per-transaction-per-minute ever achieved with the TPC-C benchmark, in addition to delivering the fastest result for a one socket system.

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