Informix Software Sets Record in the 1000GB TPC-H Benchmark

Informix Software, the database company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Informix Corporation, announced that it has established a world record in the 1000GB TPC-H benchmark on a single node system, setting industry-leading marks for speed and accuracy.

The benchmark was run using Informix Extended Parallel Server (XPS) version 8.31.FD1, the company's high-end data warehouse product, on Hewlett-Packard Company's HP 9000 Superdome Enterprise Server equipped with 64 552MHz PA-RISC 8600 CPUs using the 64-bit HP-UX 11i operating environment and the HP Surestore Disk Array XP512 with its unique crossbar architecture with end-toend fibre channel infrastructure. This combination delivered a composite query per hour rating of 9754.5 QphH@1000GB at a price/performance mark of $985 QphH@1000GB.

"As TPC-H measures performance in responding to unpredictable and demanding ad hoc queries, it represents one of the most reliable benchmarks in evaluating a database's strengths in meeting the demands of decision support environments," said Richard Wozniak, executive director of product management. "The proven ability of XPS to quickly and accurately handle complex mixed load queries demonstrates its fundamental advantages in delivering customers a robust data warehouse or operational data store solution to best meet their business needs."

XPS is designed to meet the increasingly challenging requirements of business-critical, enterprise-wide data warehousing, as it enables fast data loading and comprehensive data management. Based on "shared nothing architecture," XPS offers near-linear scalability while supporting virtually any query or schema design. In addition, XPS supports large data warehouses on both SMP and parallel architectures, such as clusters, NUMA and MPP.

"This world record TPC-H benchmark result demonstrates the powerful combination of HP's flexible and highly available Superdome server, the HP Surestore Disk Array XP512 and the Informix XPS database server to deliver extraordinary performance in meeting the real world demands of a data warehousing environment," said Mark Hudson, worldwide director of marketing, HP Business Systems and Technology Operation.

"Business analysis of the travel industry requires the manipulation of massive amounts of highly complex data. Informix Software's Extended Parallel Server, when paired with an HP 64-bit system, provides a highly scalable parallel environment, unique in its ability to move custom business intelligence into the database to simplify and manage complex business logic," said Brad Jensen, senior vice president, airline planning systems, Sabre Inc.

The benchmark configurations used in this TPC-H evaluation include:

• HP 9000 Superdome Enterprise Server
• CPU 64
• Memory 96GB
• Disk 10.182TB
• Number of Nodes 1
• Operating Environment HP-UX 11i 64-bit
• Database ServerInformix XPS 8.31.FD1
• QphH@1000 9754.5
• $/QphH@1000 $985

Informix XPS 8.31.FD1 is generally available today, and the hardware and operating system used in the TPC-H benchmark are available now. For more information on the results of the latest XPS single node benchmark, visit www.tpc.org/New_Result/TPCH_Results.html. Additional information on the TPC-H benchmark is available at www.tpc.org.

About Informix Software

Informix Software, the database company, is a leading provider of database management systems for data warehousing, transaction processing and e-business applications. With more than 100,000 customers worldwide, Informix Software delivers high-performance database systems in markets including retail, financial services, government, health care, manufacturing, media and publishing, and telecommunications. For more information, visit the Informix Software Web site at www.informix.com.

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