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Our hands-on testing compared the following four-socket solutions:
We measured the transactional database performance of each system using Oracle Database 19c and DVD Store 3 running an OLTP workload that targets a transactional database and produces a metric of operations per minute. For more testing and configuration details, see the science behind the report.
As your customer base grows, your organization needs a solution that can handle more transactions and thus support more online users. When we ran an OLTP workload on each solution, the newer Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 server handled 30 percent more operations per minute than the older Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 server. A solution that offers greater OLTP performance could support more users, potentially enabling organizations to expand their customer base.
Figure 1: Operations per minute (normalized). Higher is better. Source: Principled Technologies.