Top Ten Storage Subsystems According to SPC Benchmark
Leaders: Huawei OceanStor 18800 V3 for IO/s, DataCore SANsymphony-V for price/performance
By Jean Jacques Maleval | March 29, 2016 at 3:00 pmSPC Benchmark 1 (SPC-1) by the Storage Performance Council consists of a single workload designed to demonstrate the performance of a storage subsystem while performing the typical functions of business critical applications. Those applications are characterized by predominately random I/O operations and require both queries as well as update operations. Examples of those types of applications include OLTP, database operations, and mail server implementations.
Top Ten by Performance
(updated: 11 March 2016)
| Rank | Performance (SPC-1 IO/s) |
Test Sponsor | Tested Storage Product |
| 1 | 3,010,007.37 | Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd | Huawei OceanStor 18800 V3 |
| 2 | 2,004,941.89 | Hitachi Data Systems Corp. | Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 (with Hitachi Accelerated Flash) |
| 2 | 2,004,941.89 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HP XP7 Storage |
| 3 | 1,510,090.52 | DataCore Software Corp. | DataCore Parallel Server |
| 4 | 1,239,898.00 | Kaminario, Inc. | Kaminario K2 (K2F00000700) |
| 5 | 1,005,893.43 | Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd | Huawei OceanStor 18800 |
| 6 | 780,081.02 | IBM Corp. | IBM Power 780 server (with SSDs) |
| 7 | 685,281.71 | NetApp, Inc. | NetApp FAS8080 EX (All-Flash FAS) |
| 8 | 650,987.88 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | Huawei OceanStor6800 V3 |
| 9 | 605,016.49 | NEC Corp. | NEC Storage M710F |
| 10 | 602,019.47 | Hitachi Data Systems Corp. | Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (with Hitachi Accelerated Flash) |
| 10 | 602,019.47 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HP XP P9500 Storage (with HP XP Performance Accelererator) |
Top Ten by Price-Performance
(updated: 20 March 2016)
| Rank | Price-Performance ($/SPC-1 IO/s) |
Test sponsor | Tested Storage Product |
| 1 | $0.08 | DataCore Software Corp. | DataCore SANsymphony-V 10.0 |
| 2 | $0.09 | DataCore Software Corp. | DataCore Parallel Server |
| 3 | $0.23 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 Storage System |
| 4 | $0.24 | Infortrend Technology, Inc. | Infortrend EonStor DS 3024B |
| 5 | $0.32 | X-IO Technologies | X-IO ISE 820 G3 All Flash Array |
| 6 | $0.33 | Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd | Huawei OceanStor5300 V3 |
| 7 | $0.37 | Dell, Inc. | Dell Storage SC4020 (6 SSDs) |
| 8 | $0.41 | EMC Corp. | EMC VNX8000 |
| 9 | $0.43 | Infortrend Technology, Inc. | NetApp EF560 Storage System |
| 10 | $0.54 | NetApp, Inc. | NetApp EF560 Storage System |
Comments
Huawei and Datacore are the big winners in SPC Benchmark 1.
The Chinese company proves its excellent technology being the number one ranking in IO/s with 50% more with its OceanStor 18800 V3 than the second one, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000. But Huawei has to invest more in marketing to be a strong force outside China and especially in the "storage country", USA, where it is about totally absent.
Datacore, on its side, is number three in IO/s and a comfortable leader in $/SPC-1 IO/s with Parallel Server and SANsymphony-V 10.0. It is the only company in software only in these rankings with the use of Lenovo and Dell hardware for testing.
But note the Storage Performance Council does not test all storage subsystems as vendors have to pay for that. Biggest companies like EMC, NetApp, HDS, HPE, Dell or wealthy Huawei invest in the program but smaller ones like Infortrend, Kaminario or X-IO are an exception.
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