Dual CPU Database Server Comparison
by Johan De Gelas on December 2, 2004 12:11 AM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
Words of thanks
A lot of people gave us assistance with this project, and we like to extend our thanks to them of course:Martina Krahmer, Corporate Communications SUSE LINUX
Frank Balzer, SUSE Linux Expert
Dan Behman, Leading developer, DB2 for Linux Platform Development
Erin Roche, IBM US
Markus Weingartner, Intel Germany
Matty Bakkeren, Intel Netherlands
Damon Muzny, AMD US
Patrick Sempels, Sun Belgium Demosystem Engineer
Erwin Vanluchene, product manager HP ProLiant servers
Andi Kleen, Linux Guru
And last, but not least, I like to thank Benny Boone, Pieter Beel, Michael Aerens and Jo Neve, four of my best students at the Technical University of Kortrijk - Belgium - for helping me and making sure that all those database servers were tested.
These four students of the Bachelors of Multimedia and Communcations technology program lived for weeks among the database servers while they had to bear my presence, which is truly remarkable!
And thanks are extended to Lode De Geyter, Manager of the PIH, for letting us use the infrastructure of the TUK to test the database servers.
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smn198 - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
Would love to see how MS SQL performs in similar tests.mrVW - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
This test seems foolish to me. A 1GB database? All of that fits in ram.A database server is all about being the most reliable form of STORAGE, not some worthless repeat queries that you should cache anyway.
Transactions, logging... I mean how realistic is it to have a 1GB of database on a system with 4GB of RAM and expensive DB2 software.
A real e-commerce site likeMWave, NewEgg, Crucial could have 20GB per year! Names, addresses, order detail, customer support history, etc.
Once you get over a certain size, a database is all about disk (putting logging on one disk indepdent of the daata, etc.). The indexes do the main searching work.
This whole test seems geared to be CPU focused, but only a hardware hacker would apply software in such a crazy way.
mrdudesir - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
man i would love to have one of those systems. Great job on the review you guys, its good to know that there are places where you can still get great independent analysis.Zac42 - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
mmmmmmm Quad Opterons......Snoop - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
Great readksherman - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
is that pic from the 'lab'? (the one on pg 1)