Dual CPU Database Server Comparison
by Johan De Gelas on December 2, 2004 12:11 AM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
Sun's V20z
SUN's V20z was almost identical to the Newisys server, the server which was reviewed when the Opteron was launched. The SUN V20z has two internal hot-swap drive bays, two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and two PCI-X slots - one at 66MHz, and the other at 133MHz. What sets it apart is the on-board management processor, accessible via your browser (it has a separate 100 Mbit Ethernet interface) and of course, support for Solaris x86.
Unfortunately, at that time, Solaris 10 with 64 bit x86 support was not available.
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smn198 - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
Would love to see how MS SQL performs in similar tests.mrVW - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
This test seems foolish to me. A 1GB database? All of that fits in ram.A database server is all about being the most reliable form of STORAGE, not some worthless repeat queries that you should cache anyway.
Transactions, logging... I mean how realistic is it to have a 1GB of database on a system with 4GB of RAM and expensive DB2 software.
A real e-commerce site likeMWave, NewEgg, Crucial could have 20GB per year! Names, addresses, order detail, customer support history, etc.
Once you get over a certain size, a database is all about disk (putting logging on one disk indepdent of the daata, etc.). The indexes do the main searching work.
This whole test seems geared to be CPU focused, but only a hardware hacker would apply software in such a crazy way.
mrdudesir - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
man i would love to have one of those systems. Great job on the review you guys, its good to know that there are places where you can still get great independent analysis.Zac42 - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
mmmmmmm Quad Opterons......Snoop - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
Great readksherman - Thursday, December 2, 2004 - link
is that pic from the 'lab'? (the one on pg 1)