Oracle Corp reckons that the high-performance Oracle 6 and its Transaction Processing Subsystem will walk all over IBM’s DB2 on similarly configured machines. The new version will be announced high over the Atlantic on July 18 – Oracle has booked Concorde to take its launch guests on a supersonic pleasure trip out of Kennedy that day. But to whet appetites, the company says that two independent analysts have begun the long process of certifying the results of a variety of benchmark tests on several machines to verify the performance. On a large MVS mainframe, we were able to get 1,000 transactions per second on a mixture of simple query and update transactions, the company said. We believe that this is substantially faster than DB2.2, but we’ll wait for the completion of the benchmark audit for confirmation. Running the TPI benchmark, Oracle got around 200 TPI transactions per second on a large MVS machine, and over 36 TPI transactions per second on a VAX 8800, it claims, adding that it reckons the VAX performance is the highest transaction rate ever achieved on a DEC machine. Early-delivery customers are reporting up to five-fold increases in throughput, it adds.
