Running on a single HP Integrity Superdome server with 64 Intel(r) Itanium(r) 2 1.6 GHz processors with 9MB cache using the HP-UX 11i operating environment, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 achieved world record performance of 71,847.8 QphH@3000GB with a price- performance ratio of $56/QphH@3000GB . Utilizing the same number of processors as utilized in an IBM TPC-H benchmark, this record-breaking result outperforms the recently published three-terabyte TPC-H result by IBM DB2 running on an IBM eServer xSeries 346 by more than 30 percent.

"Oracle Database 10g Release 2 continues Oracle's track record of performance leadership on HP Integrity servers, providing customers with the highest performance at the best value," said Richard Sarwal, vice president, Server Performance, Oracle. "With Oracle, customers can count on getting the maximum return on their investment."

HP and Oracle have always been committed to delivering highly available, scalable, reliable and affordable decision support systems," said Don Jenkins, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Servers, HP. "Because HP Integrity servers are designed for managing the most demanding workloads, coupled with the scalability of the HP-UX 11i operating environment, they complement the performance of Oracle Database 10g for customers."

This benchmark adds to the extensive list of Oracle Database 10g performance world records, in which Oracle holds eight of the top nine three-terabyte TPC-H results. As the leading database for production data warehousing, Oracle Database 10g provides a single, integrated database engine for scalable and high performing data warehousing implementations. This new record-breaking benchmark illustrates why customers choose Oracle and HP Integrity servers to run very large databases.

About Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Database 10g is the only database designed for grid computing, delivering the highest performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers. Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 10g's unique ability to manage all data from traditional business information to XML documents and spatial/location information makes it the ideal choice to power Online Transaction Processing, Decision Support and Content Management applications.

About TPC-H
TPC-H is a decision support benchmark consisting of a suite of business oriented ad-hoc queries and concurrent data modifications. The performance metric is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@Size) and reflects multiple aspects of the capability of the system to process queries. More information is available at http://www.tpc.org.

About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks
Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Retek are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. TPC and TPC-H are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Council. Intel and Itanium are registered trademarks of Intel Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

As of July 18, 2005:
Source: Transaction Processing Council (TPC), www.tpc.org

HP Integrity Superdome server, 71,847.8 QphH@3000GB, $56/QphH@3000GB, available 1/18/06. A complete list of all benchmarks can be found at www.tpc.org.

IBM eServer xSeries 346, 54,465/QphH@3000GB, $32/QphH@3000GB, available 8/15/05. For more information on TPC-H and TPC-C benchmarks, please visit www.tpc.org.