Oracle claimed on Wednesday that it has set a world-record result on the SAP® Business Intelligence-Data Mart (BI-D) Standard Application Benchmark(1), surpassing the best IBM DB2 result on this benchmark with more than six times the performance(2).

On a system comprised of a four-node Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 cluster, each equipped with a two-socket, quad-core Intel® Xeon® x5570 2.93 GHZ processor, Oracle® Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux delivered a world record result of 1,165,742 query navigation steps per hour on the SAP BI-D Standard Application Benchmark. Oracle and Fujitsu also delivered an outstanding three-node result with 900,309 query navigation steps per hour(3).

When measured from one-node(4), two-node(5), three-node and four-node configurations, as documented and certified by SAP, Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters demonstrated near linear scalability by achieving 320,363 (one-node), 609,349 (two-node), 900,309 (three-node) and 1,165,742 (four-node) query navigation steps per hour, while delivering unparalleled performance and high availability.

Additionally, the one-node, two-node, three-node and four-node results delivered 60 to 75 percent more performance-per-core and 3.2 to 3.5 times more performance-per-processor, respectively, than the highest IBM DB2 results on the SAP BI-D Standard Application Benchmark.

"Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters continue to widen the gap from the competition when delivering outstanding performance and scalability,” said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. “Fast access to business intelligence is just one reason why customers choose to rely on Oracle Database for their data-intensive enterprise applications.”