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NOTE: STAC Reports vs STAC Benchmarks

If an item has the STAC Report logo, it means that STAC has issued the report.
If an item also has the Council logo, then the report is based on official benchmark specifications developed by the STAC Benchmark Council (i.e., actual STAC Benchmarks).

Sun Microsystems


Sun Microsystems provides server platforms used by market data, analytics, and execution workloads.

Sun Microsystems


Sun Microsystems provides processors and co-processors used by market data, analytics, and execution workloads.

Sun Microsystems


Sun Microsystems provides operating systems and virtualized environments for running market data, analytic, and execution workloads.

Sun Microsystems


Sun Microsystems partners with software providers to enable solutions for market data distribution.

STAC-M3 Report: kdb+ 2.6, Oracle Sun Fire X4540, OEL 5.4, ext3 (SUT: KDB100615)

STAC Report for:

- Kx Systems Kdb+ 2.6
- Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 with ext3
- AMD Opteron 2356, quad core, 2.3 GHz
- Oracle Sun Fire X4540 with 32 GB RAM
- Multiple SCSI disks / RAID 5

Tested against STAC-M3 v1 specs.

STAC Report: Aleri Order Book Consolidation on Intel Tigertown and Solaris 10

One 2U server consolidates a view of 180,000 orders per second with 99th percentile latency of approximately 3 milliseconds

Aleri Order Book Consolidation on Intel Tigerton and Solaris 10

Aleri Streaming Platform, Solaris 10, Intel Xeon 7350, order-book consolidation test case using Reuters OMM data for ITCH and Arca.

IMD: "What's Data Got To Do With IT?"

Frankel of Solace: "We applaud the evolution of independent analysts and testing agencies like STAC that publish legitimately independent performance numbers...."

Innovation Sponsors

Innovation Sponsors are vendors who underwrite a portion of space and power in the STAC Lab and furnish a critical mass of products that customers and partners can use to design and test solutions.

Innovation Sponsors encourage the industry to discover how to leverage the sponsor’s products for maximum performance.

The following firms are currently Innovation Sponsors (listed in the order of their announcement):



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