Sun Dominates Data Warehousing on the UNIX Platform
Sep 2005 Sun Dominates Data Warehousing on the UNIX Platform
Sun Platforms Run 6 of the 10 Largest Data Warehouses and the World's Largest Scientific Systems on the UNIX Platform, according to the 2005 Winter TopTen Program.
The 2005 Winter Corporation TopTen Survey provides independent third-party validation that Sun scales to the highest level of performance. The survey confirms Sun is the leading BIDW systems provider for data warehousing, and scientific systems in real-world customer environments:
Sun increased its total awards to 72 from 28 in 2003, a greater than 2x increase in winners overall.
Sun had a 67 percent increase in its number of data warehouse winners for Normalized Data Volume for all environments.
Sun customers run six of the world's top 10 data warehouses on the UNIX(R) platform by both normalized data volume and number of rows/records run.
Sun customers run the top six, including #1, online transaction processing (OLTP) sites for highest workload on UNIX, the largest processing 8.6 million SQL statements per hour.
The world's largest scientific system, by normalized data volume, with 364 terabytes of data, runs on Sun.
The world's largest commercial database, which tops 100 terabytes, runs the Solaris OS.
The Winter TopTen Program identifies the leading customer database and data warehousing implementations with a minimum of 1TB of data via a rigorous process requiring respondents to complete an extensive questionnaire. Entrants then further validate their submissions by running queries developed by their database vendor and Winter Corp. or submitting system-generated documentation to supports their results.
Source: Winter Corporation, http://www.wintercorp.com
All customer respondents were required to complete the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey and validate their entry by running the SQL Validation Script against their production system. The SQL Script Validation output must report a database size greater than one terabyte for Unix/Mainframe and greater than 500GB for Windows to be accepted by Winter Corporation. Winter Corporation defines database size as user data plus indices.
