Oracle has announced a world-record result on the SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel (SD-Parallel) standard application benchmark running the SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application(1).

Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters running on four Intel Xeon x7560-based Sun Fire X4470 servers and Oracle Solaris and Sun Storage 6180 Array, achieved 40,000 SAP SD-Parallel benchmark users.

Oracle’s x86 clustered configuration exceeded the performance of IBM’s recently published result on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark running IBM DB2 on an IBM Power 780 server (2,3) while delivering near-perfect scalability(4) with high-availability, clearly distinguishing Oracle over IBM

Oracle’s result also delivered more than double the performance of HP’s best-published result that used Intel Xeon X7560-based hardware (3,5).

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“Oracle continues to outperform the competition when running the SAP SD-Parallel standard application benchmark,” said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. “Delivering near-perfect scaling and record-setting performance are among the reasons customers choose Oracle to run their enterprise application environments.” .