1. Linux on Power - Doubling your performance
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Linux on Power - Doubling your performance
Using open source to improve the price / performance
dynamics of managing data
Bonhams is a privately owned British auction House – one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers of fine arts and antiques.
Head office is in London + has 11 offices worldwide including Paris, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Sydney.
In 2007, Bonhams consolidated its global outsourcing contract with Quru.
Issues & Challenges
US operations were struggling with end-of-life and unsupported legacy systems.
Windows NT 4 and Exchange 5.5 were being replaced with Lotus Notes on Linux
The UK, under Quru’s guidance, had used VMware several years before
Now, Quru were asked to find an innovative virtualisation solution that
was cheaper than VMware,
enabled global control and management of IT assets
Ensure full support of Bonhams global BC/DR strategy
Robin Porter
Business Development Manager
James Freeman
Enterprise Architect
19th November 2013

2. One of the fastest growing Red Hat partners in UK
Established 2007
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Open source software development house
2011 launched solutions and services
Specialists in Virtualisation
and Database I/S
Technical solutions focus

3. Data Explosion and the need for open source
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90% of the worlds data was created in the last two years
Majority is ‘unstructured’
Oracle dominate RDBMS
PostgreSQL is the fastest growing open source database

4. Open Source is the future
All organisations are looking to cut costs - Database infrastructure is #1
Open source technologies deliver substantial cost savings
EnterpriseDB have made PostgreSQL Enterprise ready and delivered Oracle compatibility
80% savings on licensing - is x86 the best hardware platform ?
Proof of concept - performance benchmarking
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5. Linux Performance on Power
Power7+ CPU Platform has huge potential - CISC vs. RISC
Especially for large multi-threaded workloads
But - development effort is still focussed on x86
Don’t expect best performance out of the box
Tune. Tune. Tune.

6. Case Study - PostgreSQL
Big performance improvements over 9.1 and earlier
Especially multi-user workloads
Two types of benchmark
pgbench SELECT - simple reporting query benchmark
HammerDB - based on industry standard TPC-C benchmark simulating OLTP workloads
Reference system IBM X3650 M4 - 2 x Xeon E core, 512GB RAM
Equivalently priced x86 tin
how many of you support x86 ?

7. pgbench - Step 1 - “Out of the box”
Compiled from source
Default toolchain
Factory configuration on hardware
Power7 = 31% more TPS than x86 !
31%

8. But.. we can do better All tuning work undertaken in house at Quru
No source code changes
Under the guidance of IBM Raleigh / Montpellier
We managed to beat their results !

9. pgbench - Step 2 - “Tuned”
2 months testing and tuning
Re-compiled code
Hardware performance tuned
Kernel performance tuned
Application binaries profiled
52%
99%
31%

10. HammerDB - TPC-C Benchmarks
Tuning gives PowerLinux competitive advantage
Power7 = 58% more NOPM than x86 !
58%

11. Quru tuning unlocks the performance of PowerLinux
SPEC CPU2006
Publicly available at
“Base” figures are untuned - strict guidelines
“Peak” figures are tuned - freedom for tuning allowed

12. Conclusions Quru achieved a significant uplift in performance
Every environment is unique so tuning is essential
Our integrated solution is the future of Oracle cost containment in the enterprise
To find out more check out
Two whitepapers to follow and an event 10th December at IBM Southbank

13. Thank You

14. PostgreSQL - The world’s most advanced
open source database
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Evolved from Ingres project 1982 University of California
First Open Source version 1996

15. EnterpriseDB
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Providing enterprises with the cost-performance benefits of Postgres by offering the products, resources, support and dependability required for high-level commercial applications
140+ employees
2,500+ customers across all market segments
Global presence with offices in North America, Europe, Asia
Fast growing: 60%+ YOY sales growth in 2012, 80%+ YOY 2013
70,000+ downloads/week of PostgreSQL and related products
Strong financial banking

16. EnterpriseDB - Oracle Compatibility
Run applications written for Oracle virtually unchanged
No need to re-train Oracle DBAs and developers
Support for SQL,PL/SQL,OCI and Pro*C
Replication for easy sharing of data
Dramatic cost savings
No vendor lock-in
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17. EnterpriseDB - Oracle cost containment
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18. EnterpriseDB - Magic Quadrant
Gartner Comments:
Community leadership
EnterpriseDB is the primary contributor to the PostgreSQL community and is responsible for many new features of PostgreSQL, including JSON
Functionality
The functionality of EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus has increased greatly, and with the Oracle Compatibility Feature is now more than sufficient to run both mission-critical and non-mission-critical applications.
Stability and compatibility
References specifically call out compatibility with Oracle, the stability of the DBMS and product support as strengths.
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