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Mission-critical databases require hardware that can handle a large number of transactions so they can serve many customers, even during peak activity. Using the TPC-C-like HammerDB benchmark, the Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors dramatically outperformed the legacy Dell PowerEdge R920, achieving 3.14 times the TPM. Please note that the Oracle Database EULA does not permit us to publish exact results, so we’ve done the math and normalized performance numbers between the two platforms to make our comparison.
If you replace servers one to one, you’ll be able to handle 3.14 times the transactions and save 1U of space for each server, which can meet your needs now and as your business grows. Or, you can take advantage of the benefits inherent in consolidation and shrink your data center by investing in a single new Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 for every set of three legacy servers. Fewer servers could reduce your operating expenses, including costs associated with power and cooling, management, and more. Because many software companies license their products (including Oracle Database and Microsoft Windows Server) by processor or processor core, consolidating systems can significantly lower database and/or OS licensing costs as well.
Plus, legacy hardware is outdated and may begin to fail, requiring more time and effort from administrators to keep their important workloads running. New hardware restarts the clock on aging hardware and incorporates the latest in management and storage technologies—such as the NVMe drives we used in our testing—which can drive performance even higher.
We tested each server with an OLTP workload from the HammerDB suite of benchmarks. Their TPC-C-like benchmark gives results in TPM.
Note: HammerDB results aren’t official TPC-C results and are therefore not comparable.
To learn more about TPM and other information specific to our benchmark workloads, visit the HammerDB website at www.hammerdb.com.