IBM Breaks Double Digit Performance Barrier With 10 Million Transactions Per Minute

IBM achieved the industry's highest ever TPC-C (transaction processing) benchmark result using a Power Systems configuration with DB2, hitting 10,366,254 tpmC,(1). The IBM result delivered the follow breakthrough results including:

• Performance more than 2.5 times better than HP's best result(2), 69% greater performance per core, and 2.1 times better price/performance
• Performance more than 35% better than Oracle's best performance result(3), 2.7 times better performance per core, and 41% better price performance.

In addition, IBM calculations on the IBM configuration show it requires 35% less energy per transaction compared to the energy usage data published by Oracle on the Oracle configuration (1).

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