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Oracle Corp. today announced with HP a world record non-clustered TPC-H 10 terabyte benchmark result for Oracle(R) Database 10g running on an HP Integrity Superdome server with HP-UX, highlighting the companies' ability to satisfy customers' most demanding decision support and data warehousing requirements. Running on an HP Integrity Superdome server with 64 Intel Itanium 2 1.5 GHz processors with HP-UX 11i v2 and HP StorageWorks VA7100 disk arrays, Oracle Database 10g achieved 49,108 QphH@10000GB at a price performance of $118/QphH@10000GB. The single-system result delivers significantly more performance per processor* at less than half the cost per query/hour than the best clustered results from IBM and NCR Teradata, demonstrating that versatile single systems can handle similar workloads of clustered systems at less than half the cost. At the 10-terabyte database size, Oracle Database 10g and the HP Integrity Superdome produced a query/hour performance level per server that is four times faster than IBM's DB2 on the IBM p690. Oracle and HP now hold the world record non-clustered TPC-H results for the three and 10-terabyte scale factors. In addition, Oracle and HP also hold both the single-system and clustered TPC-C performance records with the only benchmarks ever to surpass one million transactions per minute, demonstrating the power of HP Integrity servers and Oracle Database 10g for both scale-up and scale-out solutions. The records were set utilizing an HP Integrity Superdome server running HP-UX and Oracle Database 10g and by a cluster of HP Integrity rx5670 servers running Linux and Oracle Database 10g. "Companies with huge data warehousing projects are always searching for a better, faster way to manage and make sense of their high volumes of data," said Richard Sarwal, vice president, Server Performance at Oracle. "Oracle Database 10g in combination with HP Integrity servers enable companies to get excellent performance at a much lower price point than competing products." "Oracle and HP jointly enable organizations to operate the largest and most complex decision support and data warehousing environments at a price/performance that is less than half of that of competing vendors," said Don Jenkins, vice president Marketing for HP's Business Critical Servers. "The HP Integrity servers again have proven their versatility and exceptional performance characteristics. The same server, the HP Integrity Superdome, that holds the top four TPC-C results on HP-UX, Windows Server 2003, and Linux, has today delivered the highest non-clustered TPC-H result."