World Record Performance on PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials Benchmark on SPARC T4-2

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Oracle's SPARC T4-2 server achieved World Record performance on Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials 9.1 executing 20 Million Journals lines in 8.92 minutes on Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on Oracle Solaris 11. This is the first result published on this version of the benchmark.

The SPARC T4-2 server was able to process 20 million general ledger journal edit and post batch jobs in 8.92 minutes on this benchmark that reflects a large customer environment that utilizes a back-end database of nearly 500 GB.
This benchmark demonstrates that the SPARC T4-2 server with PeopleSoft Financials 9.1 can easily process 100 million journal lines in less than 1 hour.
The SPARC T4-2 server delivered more than 146 MB/sec of IO throughput with Oracle Database 11g running on Oracle Solaris 11.

Performance Landscape

Results are presented for PeopleSoft Financials Benchmark 9.1. Results obtained with PeopleSoft Financials Benchmark 9.1 are not comparable to the the previous version of the benchmark, PeopleSoft Financials Benchmark 9.0, due to significant change in data model and supports only batch.

PeopleSoft Financials Benchmark, Version 9.1
Solution Under Test	Batch (min)
SPARC T4-2 (2 x SPARC T4, 2.85 GHz)	8.92

Results from PeopleSoft Financials Benchmark 9.0.

PeopleSoft Financials Benchmark, Version 9.0
Solution Under Test	Batch (min)	Batch with Online (min)
SPARC Enterprise M4000 (Web/App) SPARC Enterprise M5000 (DB)	33.09	34.72
SPARC T3-1 (Web/App) SPARC Enterprise M5000 (DB)	35.82	37.01

Configuration Summary

Hardware Configuration:

1 x SPARC T4-2 server

2 x SPARC T4 processors, 2.85 GHz
128 GB memory

Storage Configuration:

1 x Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array (for database and redo logs)
2 x Sun Storage 2540-M2 arrays and 2 x Sun Storage 2501-M2 arrays (for backup)

Software Configuration:

Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 SRU 7.5
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3)
PeopleSoft Financials 9.1 Feature Pack 2
PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management 9.1 Feature Pack 2
PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 latest patch - 8.52.03
Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.5
Java Platform, Standard Edition Development Kit 6 Update 32

Benchmark Description

The PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials 9.1 benchmark emulates a large enterprise that processes and validates a large number of financial journal transactions before posting the journal entry to the ledger. The validation process certifies that the journal entries are accurate, ensuring that ChartFields values are valid, debits and credits equal out, and inter/intra-units are balanced. Once validated, the entries are processed, ensuring that each journal line posts to the correct target ledger, and then changes the journal status to posted. In this benchmark, the Journal Edit & Post is set up to edit and post both Inter-Unit and Regular multi-currency journals. The benchmark processes 20 million journal lines using AppEngine for edits and Cobol for post processes.

Disclosure Statement

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Results as of 1 October 2012.

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