Violin Memory Arrays are commonly used to set database benchmark records as the Memory Array is not only fast but is reliable and serviceable.  The RAID and hot-swap capabilities are a critical requirement  for TPC testing because an active module must be failed during the audited performance run and the system must not go down.  Violin’s vRAID architecture is uniquely capable of providing world record performance and cost while surviving hardware failures at both chip and module level. The benefits to real-world applications of the technologies and products used in these benchmarks include:

• Very high sustained performance and transaction rates
• Increased utilization of server/CPU cores and database licenses
• Lower cost per I/O and database transaction/query
• Lower power per database transaction/query
• Ability to scale databases from 1TB to 100s of TBytes

December 8, 2011

Cisco UCS C250 M2 Server and Oracle TPC-C record using Violin 6000 and 3200 Memory Arrays.

November 14, 2011

HP ProLiant DL385 G7 TPC-E record using dual Violin 3200 Memory Arrays.

June 22, 2011

Violin’s Flash Memory Arrays Enable IBM’s GPFS to Scan 10 Billion Files in 43 Minutes beating old record by 37 times

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May 23, 2011

HP Blade server TPC-C record using network attached Violin Memory Arrays.

May 9, 2011

HP DL380 TPC-E world record for dual socket servers using Violin Memory Arrays.

June 29, 2010

HP, Microsoft and Violin post a leadership TPC-E benchmark