BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM announced today an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using  the industry standard TPC performance benchmark.

According to the press release, IBM achieved highest ever TPC-C (transaction processing) benchmark result using a Power Systems configuration with DB2, hitting 10,366,254 tpmC.

Organizations across all industries are demanding systems that address the data intensive workload demands of today's applications and services with better performance and lower cost. Per-core performance is important for clients in industries who run database application workloads that use per-core pricing when determining total solution cost.

"Smarter healthcare providers, cities, retailers, smarter energy grids and financial systems, all require support for ever greater data volumes and transaction throughput," said Nitin Singhal, country manager, Information Management, Software Group, IBM India/South Asia. 

"The results of this benchmark demonstrate how IBM innovations combine to deliver unprecedented performance and cost efficiency for data intensive applications.  Not only can you scale to massive data volumes and transaction throughput, but you can do so economically in an energy efficient way," added Singhal.

This TPC-C benchmark with DB2 9.7 was done with a cluster of three IBM Power 780 servers, each with 8 processors, 64 cores, and 256 threads achieving a throughput of 10,366,254 tpmC at $1.38/tpmC with availability date of October 13, 2010 added the release.