The price is the five year cost of ownership for the tested configuration and includes maintenance and software support. Larger values indicate better performance. Larger values indicate better performance. Larger values indicate better performance. Results shown are in minutes.
Lower numbers indicate better performance.
Unless otherwise indicated for a system, the SPEC, TPC, and Linpack benchmarks were conducted using AIX v 4.2.1. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors. The model simulates some of the system's operations such as CPU, cache, and memory. Although the model uses general database and operating system parameters, the model does not reflect specific databases or AIX version or releases. Unless otherwise indicated for a system, the model assumes the use of 32 bit applications.