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Thanks to its high performance and reliability, Oracle® Database has become the industry’s most popular enterprise relational database.1 In fact, for many IT and database admins, Oracle Database is the clear choice to support their businesses’ high-performance, mission-critical workloads. What is less clear for organizations is which hardware platform and operating system they should use to support their Oracle databases:
When it comes to performance and total cost of ownership (TCO), how do the competing options compare?
To find the answer, Prowess Consulting compared the costs of two- and four-socket Dell EMC™ servers against IBM® processor–based systems. Specifically, Prowess testing compared the following systems:
Our analysis found:
In addition, operating expenses (OpEx) for IBM Power Systems servers running AIX are higher than for Dell EMC PowerEdge systems due to the specialized expertise and subsequently higher labor costs required for administering AIX, compared to RHEL. Dell Technologies also provides several other management and support benefits that can help reduce overall OpEx, including Dell EMC™ PowerStore, which provides reliable, performant NVM Express® (NVMe®) storage, Dell EMC™ OpenManage™ Enterprise for systems management, monitoring, and automated application updates, and other tools and services.
1 DB-Engines. “DB-Engines Ranking.” December 2020. https://db-engines.com/en/ranking.