Everhart, Glenn
From:	young_r@eisner.decus.org
Sent:	Wednesday, May 27, 1998 1:13 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Best Oracle Numbers EVER on single AlphaServer


	Reading my latest InFORM I stumble upon:

http://www.digital.com/info/inFORM/issues/issue22/22ov0301.htm


               "In recent performance tests, Oracle7 on OpenVMS
               achieved over 600 transactions per second--the best
               OLTP rates ever achieved for OpenVMS and the best
               Oracle numbers ever on a single AlphaServer node.
               These numbers were achieved by employing Oracle,
               Version 7.3.2.3, on an AlphaServer 8400 (12 CPUs,
               440 MHz), running OpenVMS.

               The VLM capability, now available for Oracle
               OpenVMS users, can substantially boost OLTP
               performance and scalability."

	As we all know, "transactions of the second kind" in reference
	to RDBMS are the unofficial way of getting the word out on tpmC
	but vendors can't call them tpmC unless they are fully audited, etc.

	So with a nod to the "council" I will call them "t per minute", but we 
	really know what they are...

	Doing the math it works out to over 36000 t per minute.  If that
	was close in cost to the same config Digital posted in October running
	Sybase, we would be looking at around $75 per t per minute, 35 dollars
	less than the Sybase number for price-performance comparisons.

	That Oct 97 Sybase number was 24000+ , suppose Oracle 8 on DUNIX
	single node did 28000... that would make the VMS numbers we see
	about 40% better.  VMS would be very attractive versus DUNIX,
	if only someone knew about it.

	My guess?  As the 100K number was wrapping up, the VMS folks got
	a shot at the hardware before it was torn down.

	I spent the better part of an hour trying to find the whitepaper
	the above URL referred to:

		"see the whitepaper on http://www.openvms.digital.com/"

	I checked Whitepapers.  I searched for OLTP, Oracle and OLTP,
	Oracle and performance, Oracle and highest, etc.  Looked
	at almost all the URLs at:

		http://www.digital.com/alphaserver/performance/

	I don't give up easy, had to conclude there is no such whitepaper.

	Whover it was that allowed that little factoid above sneak out,
	thank you.  Looking forward to more crumbs when Galaxy numbers show
	up "late fall."

	You know it is rather annoying though when you see an operating
	system so maligned ... I acknowledge this is the NT/Unix age but
	if an OS is REALLY good, run with it.  Promote it.  IBM has no
	problem supporting/promoting the AS/400 OS --> OS/400.  They certainly 
	don't hide it.  It is a fine OS and has several strengths.

	VMS is relegated to crumbs.  Crumbs from the Master's table.

				Rob