The benchmark was conducted against parameters defined by the analytic processing benchmark – APB-1 Release II – and is the closest thing the business intelligence (BI) industry has to a ‘standard’ for measuring key performance metrics (speed and scalability) of OLAP systems.
Sunnyvale, California-based Hyperion, which develops analytic software tools and applications, says its market-leading Essbase OLAP server ran nearly 190% faster than competitive benchmarks, cutting its previous record response time in half in the process.
According to Hyperion sources the benchmark was run off a 64-bit version of Essbase, running on entry-level HP Integrity servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors.
The benchmark returned 247,524 average queries per minute to a user base of 10,000 concurrent users – an average response time of 2.4 seconds. Last year a similar benchmark run on Essbase returned 119,085 average queries per minute – at a 5.04 second response time.
Hyperion says the benchmark was verified by an independent auditor in September this year.
