On benchmarking the ORACLE parallel server on nCUBE2

Author

Costicoglou, S. ; Podgorny, M. ; Choudhary, A.

Author_Institution

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

10/6/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

113

Abstract

Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) architectures have been proposed as a promising alternative to mainframe computers for the largest database and transaction processing tasks. An example of this trend is the implementation of ORACLE parallel database server on several massively parallel machines like Meiko, nCUBE2, and KSR. While many claims have been made for the performance of ORACLE on MPP platforms, few studies have been done to test the actual performance advantages and disadvantages. A benchmark study of the performance and scalability of the ORACLE Parallel Server v6.2 on nCUBE2 is reported here. The advantages of the stripe file system and the gigacache are also studied and displayed in the benchmark results

Keywords

database machines; distributed databases; file servers; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; transaction processing; Massively Parallel Processor; ORACLE parallel database server; ORACLE parallel server; benchmark results; gigacache; nCUBE2; performance; scalability; stripe file system; transaction processing; Benchmark testing; Communication system control; Concurrent computing; Databases; File servers; File systems; Lakes; Parallel architectures; Scalability; Whales;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5250-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APADS.1993.588842

Filename

588842