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Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers with Intel Optane DC persistent memory handled more transactions per minute than configurations with NAND flash NVMe drives or SATA SSDs
While enterprises offer different goods and services, they’re on the same quest to deliver speedy performance to end users and increase profits by making the most out of their resources. Organizations that need exceptional transactional database performance should take note of a new memory technology that could help them meet their goals: Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. This new technology looks like memory and offers quick reads and writes, but the 256GB capacity of each DCPMM lets it act like traditional storage and store entire databases on a DCPMM stick.
Through our tests in the Principled Technologies data center, we found that using Intel Optane DC persistent memory in a Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R740xd server delivered 2.2 times the Microsoft® SQL Server® 2019 performance of a two-NVMe™ drive configuration and improved performance even more significantly over SATA SSDs—delivering an impressive 11.3 times the transactions per minute. As your data center approaches its peak database performance capabilities, consider adding Intel Optane DC persistent memory—our tests suggest that it might help transactional database performance.