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Benchmark Solidifies Oracle's Overall Performance and Price-Performance Leadership in High Performance Data Warehousing -- Today Oracle announced a new world record TPC-H 10 Terabyte (TB) benchmark for Oracle Database 10g Release 2. With this achievement, Oracle now holds world records for the three largest scale factors in database performance, showcasing the company's superior data warehousing capabilities. In all, Oracle holds four of the five TPC-H performance records: * TPC-H 300 Gigabyte; * TPC-H One TB; * TPC-H Three TB; and * TPC-H 10 TB. Running on a single Sun Fire E25K server with 72 UltraSPARC IV+ 1.5 GHz processors and Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), Oracle Database 10g Release 2 with Automatic Storage Management achieved a record-breaking performance of 108,099.7/QphH@10000GB with a price-performance ratio of $53.80/QphH@10000GB. "Oracle continues to raise the bar over IBM, Microsoft and others, demonstrating our customer commitment to delivering the utmost in data warehousing performance and scalability," said Richard Sarwal, vice president of Server Performance at Oracle. "While running complex queries against multiple terabytes of data was a rarity five years ago, it's becoming more common across all of our customers today. Oracle Database 10g Release 2 provides customers with the high performance needed to quickly process these complex queries." This latest benchmark adds to the extensive list of Oracle Database 10g performance world records, including the recently published TPC-H one-TB and TPC-H three-TB benchmarks with Oracle Database 10g Release 2. As the leading database for production data warehousing, Oracle Database 10g provides a single, integrated database engine for scalable and high performing data warehousing implementations. This new record-breaking benchmark illustrates why customers choose Oracle on Sun systems to run very large databases.