As of January 30, 2008
DB2, once again, demonstrated its commitment at providing high-performance and scalability with another industry-leading result in the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. Simulating the complexity of J2EE applications and the high-volume transaction processing of today’s critical enterprise applications, SPECjAppServer2004 stresses all major components of an effective J2EE solution from the application server (including Web serving, Enterprise Java™ Beans and messaging; database software) to the physical hardware and network supporting the solution.
Showcasing the superiority of an all-IBM solution, a world-record score of 14,004.42 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard was achieved with IBM DB2 9.5 as the data server on IBM System p5 595 and IBM WebSphere 6.1 Application Server with EJB3 Feature Pack on IBM System pSeries Blade Center. Details can be found in this link.
DB2 9.5 towers the #2 Oracle Database 10g result by 33% while using half the processors (40 cores vs. 80 cores), and utilizing 40% less memory (192GB vs. 320GB) on the data server. By supporting higher overall performance while utilizing fewer processors, DB2 lowers both the software and hardware costs for the data server. Each processor core on the DB2 pSeries system delivers 2.6x the performance of the Oracle HP system (350 vs. 131 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard).
DB2 9.5 achieved 14,004.42 SPECjAppserver2004 JOPS@Standard on a IBM system p5 595 with twenty 1.9 GHz Dual-Core Power5+ processors and 192 GB of ram using AIX 5L v5.3. Oracle 10g 10.2.0.3 achieved 10,519.43 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard on a HP Superdome with forty 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 and 320 GB of ram using HP-UX 11i version 3.
Additional top DB2 results from the past can be seen here.
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