Dolphin is specifically targeting the database applications market with the product line Dolphin Express and has for many years supported different database management systems, including Oracle RAC over TCP and UDP. The additional support for RDS is in line with Oracle's own development and published roadmap. The Dolphin Express software component, SuperSockets, is fully transparent to the application, so Oracle RAC can be run right out of the box with the standard UDP protocol or with RDS through the RDS interface developed by Oracle.

A series of benchmarks were run at the Hewlett-Packard labs for Enterprise Service Systems in Cupertino, California for the purpose of showing users of Oracle RAC what performance improvement can be expected in their own systems by using industry standard Hewlett-Packard servers and Dolphin Express interconnect.

The benchmark results show a close to 400% performance improvement - both throughput and response time - over gigabit Ethernet when deploying Oracle RAC over RDS on an HP Proliant cluster with Dolphin Express. The results are primarily due to the unique architecture of Dolphin Express with features that minimize latency and remove protocol overhead.

"As part of our strategy to be a leading provider of high performance systems to the enterprise data centres, we are very pleased to collaborate with HP and Oracle to continually serve the HP and Oracle RAC community with the best solutions available", stated Tim Miller, CEO of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions.