Xyleme, developer of Xyleme Zone Server (XZS),a solution for storing and accessing large volumes of semi-structured content, today announced the results of scalability performance tests on its flagship product. In tests independently
verified by Morse, Xyleme Zone Server effectively scaled to accommodate up to 120 GB of XML content, showing rapid load times, unmatched query speeds and the ability to support a wide range of hardware devices.
In November 2003, Xyleme says it conducted the series of performance benchmark tests of its Xyleme Zone Server 3.2 at Morse's Enterprise Computing Centre testing facilities in West London, UK. This benchmark focused on performance of Xyleme Zone Server running on Solaris and using a wide configuration of Sun Microsystems hardware. The tests, independently verified by Morse consultants, represent some of the first results ever published for commercial XML repositories. Xyleme performed the tests to demonstrate Xyleme Zone Server's suitability to store and query large amounts of semi-structured content, and to verify the server's ability to meet realistic scalability goals for large content volumes using real-world content.
The tests incorporated a variety of hardware devices to ensure that XZS operates effectively on a range of variable performance machines running Sun
Solaris. The test results demonstrated the following:
* All tests were carried out without a single hardware or software failure.
* XZS efficiently scaled to accommodate large volumes of XML content (120 GB tested).
* The server sustained loading rates of 6 MB per minute (equivalent to almost 37,000 10 KB pages per hour) for each local repository process.
Large content volumes can be loaded in parallel without degrading performance.
* Loading performance is not affected by the size or type of documents loaded.
* The fastest queries across 120 GB of content returned results in 4 ms.
* Complex queries (locating a word using Xpath evaluation) took less than 68 ms on average.
* Searching the entire repository, 28 million documents, for a query response took 0.1 seconds.
"The results represent exciting news for companies with large volumes of high value, semi-structured content," said Guy Ferran, Vice President of Engineering at Xyleme. "With Xyleme Zone Server, they can scale gracefully as their content volumes increase over time and remain confident that XZS will deliver exceptionally fast load and query speeds regardless of 8B8content volumes."
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