Oracle's SPARC S7-2 server shows higher throughput performance,
1.6x per core, running a mixed transaction workload using Oracle
Berkeley DB compared to results on a two-chip, Intel Xeon
Processor E5-2699 v3 server. Each instance contains a sum of
50 million rows of customer, account and orders data. The
size of each instance is nearly 20 gigabytes in size.
The SPARC S7-2 server delivered a rate of 365,195 transactions
per second on the throughput test. On a per-core basis...