Sun Microsystems Inc’s Ultra Enterprise 6000 running Solaris 2.5.1 achieved a power metric of 625 and throughput of 351 running a 100Gb Oracle7 7.3 database against the TPC-D decision support benchmark suite. The price- performance ratio was $4,501 (dollars per-queries-per-hour). The combination outperforms the other two TPC-D results posted so far. Teradata V3.1.1 running on a five-node, 40 CPU NCR 5100M achieved a power metric of 217, a throughput metric of 170 and a $28,272 price-performance ratio. IBM Corp’s DB2 PE on a 32-way SP2 302 achieves a power metric of 207, a throughput metric of 85 and a price- performance ratio of $33,640.
