Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Performance on SPARC T4-2
- by Brian
The Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is
optimized to run on Oracle's SPARC T4 processor platforms
running Oracle Solaris 11 providing
unsurpassed scalability, performance, upgradability,
protection of investment
and return on investment.
The following demonstrate the value of combining
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database with SPARC T4 servers and
Oracle Solaris 11:
On a Mobile Call Processing test, the 2-socket
SPARC T4-2 server outperforms:
Oracle's SPARC Enterprise M4000 server
(4 x 2.66 GHz SPARC64 VII+) by 34%.
Oracle's SPARC T3-4 (4 x 1.65 GHz SPARC T3) by 2.7x, or 5.4x per processor.
Utilizing the TimesTen Performance Throughput Benchmark
(TPTBM), the SPARC T4-2 server protects investments with:
2.1x the overall performance of a 4-socket
SPARC Enterprise M4000 server in read-only mode and
1.5x the performance in update-only testing.
This is 4.2x more performance per processor
than the SPARC64 VII+ 2.66 GHz based system.
10x more performance per processor than the SPARC
T2+ 1.4 GHz server.
1.6x better performance per processor than the
SPARC T3 1.65 GHz based server.
In replication testing, the two socket SPARC T4-2 server is over
3x faster than the performance of a four socket
SPARC Enterprise T5440 server in both asynchronous
replication environment and the highly available
2-Safe replication. This
testing emphasizes parallel replication between systems.
Performance Landscape
Mobile Call Processing Test Performance
System
Processor
Sockets/Cores/Threads
Tps
SPARC T4-2
SPARC T4, 2.85 GHz
2
16
128
218,400
M4000
SPARC64 VII+, 2.66 GHz
4
16
32
162,900
SPARC T3-4
SPARC T3, 1.65 GHz
4
64
512
80,400
TimesTen Performance Throughput Benchmark (TPTBM) Read-Only
System
Processor
Sockets/Cores/Threads
Tps
SPARC T3-4
SPARC T3, 1.65 GHz
4
64
512
7.9M
SPARC T4-2
SPARC T4, 2.85 GHz
2
16
128
6.5M
M4000
SPARC64 VII+, 2.66 GHz
4
16
32
3.1M
T5440
SPARC T2+, 1.4 GHz
4
32
256
3.1M
TimesTen Performance Throughput Benchmark (TPTBM)
Update-Only
System
Processor
Sockets/Cores/Threads
Tps
SPARC T4-2
SPARC T4, 2.85 GHz
2
16
128
547,800
M4000
SPARC64 VII+, 2.66 GHz
4
16
32
363,800
SPARC T3-4
SPARC T3, 1.65 GHz
4
64
512
240,500
TimesTen Replication Tests
System
Processor
Sockets/Cores/Threads
Asynchronous
2-Safe
SPARC T4-2
SPARC T4, 2.85 GHz
2
16
128
38,024
13,701
SPARC T5440
SPARC T2+, 1.4 GHz
4
32
256
11,621
4,615
Configuration Summary
Hardware Configurations:
SPARC T4-2 server
2 x SPARC T4 processors, 2.85 GHz
256 GB memory
1 x 8 Gbs FC Qlogic HBA
1 x 6 Gbs SAS HBA
4 x 300 GB internal disks
Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array (40 x 24 GB flash modules)
1 x Sun Fire X4275 server configured as COMSTAR head
SPARC T3-4 server
4 x SPARC T3 processors, 1.6 GHz
512 GB memory
1 x 8 Gbs FC Qlogic HBA
8 x 146 GB internal disks
1 x Sun Fire X4275 server configured as COMSTAR head
SPARC Enterprise M4000 server
4 x SPARC64 VII+ processors, 2.66 GHz
128 GB memory
1 x 8 Gbs FC Qlogic HBA
1 x 6 Gbs SAS HBA
2 x 146 GB internal disks
Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array (40 x 24 GB flash modules)
1 x Sun Fire X4275 server configured as COMSTAR head
Software Configuration:
Oracle Solaris 11 11/11
Oracle TimesTen 11.2.2.4
Benchmark Descriptions
TimesTen Performance Throughput BenchMark (TPTBM)
is shipped with TimesTen and measures the
total throughput of the system. The
workload can test read-only, update-only,
delete and insert operations as
required.
Mobile Call Processing is a customer-based workload for
processing calls made by mobile phone subscribers.
The workload has a mixture of
read-only, update, and insert-only transactions.
The peak throughput
performance is measured from multiple
concurrent processes executing the
transactions until a peak performance is reached
via saturation of the available
resources.
Parallel Replication tests using both asynchronous
and 2-Safe replication methods.
For asynchronous replication, transactions are
processed in batches to maximize the throughput
capabilities of the replication
server and network. In 2-Safe replication,
also known as no data-loss or high
availability, transactions are replicated
between servers immediately
emphasizing low latency. For both environments,
performance is measured in the
number of parallel replication servers
and the maximum transactions-per-second
for all concurrent processes.
See Also
SPARC T4-2 Server
oracle.com
OTN
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
oracle.com OTN
Oracle Solaris
oracle.com
OTN
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition
oracle.com
OTN
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