Oceanbase
A casual browse of the TPC-C top scores will show a stark fact:
OceanBase v2.2 - 707,351,007
Oracle Database 11g R2 - 30,249,688
The age of Oracle's performance leadership appears to have come to an end.
Oracle has released the latest upgrade to its Exadata database appliance series, claiming to better earlier iterations on I/O and throughput. Building on the heritage of tightly integrated hardware and software it acquired with Sun Microsystems back in 2009, Big Red's beefed-up Exadata X9M claims online transaction processing …