Independent benchmarks shows Aras PLM scales to 1 million users

The takeaway

The largest PLM scalability benchmark ever published puts Aras Innovator in the catbird seat. Who’s mocking open source software now?

The details

The results of an independent test on the scalability of Aras Innovator 10 running Microsoft SQL Server 2014 confirm the PLM software can support 1 million named users and 250,000 concurrent users. Both Aras and the independent testing service claim the test is the largest ever conducted in the enterprise PLM industry.

Aras Innovator 10 has been tuned to run Microsoft SQL Server 2014. The core software is open source, available for free download. (Source: Aras)

“Testing validates that Aras Innovator 10 on SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition can handle an extremely high number of concurrent users and data when running on standard server configurations,” said Anders Westby, Director of Cloud Services and Testing at Logic 20/20. “During testing the average response times were very fast and no hardware bottlenecks were observed during any of the tests. Under the heaviest load average CPU utilization was generally below 10 percent and was never higher than 20 percent.”

Tests were conducted on Aras Innovator 10 running SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition with standard Microsoft recommended settings and best practices. The HP ProLiant DL980G7 server was tested with two HP ioDrive2 Duo IO accelerators. Aras says testing occurred with 1,000,000 named users at 125,000, 150,000, 200,000 and 250,000 concurrent user loads with real-world scenarios and data structures to simulate actual usage.

Logic 20/20 published the following performance conclusions:

• Aras Innovator 10 and SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition running on standard HP server configurations showed strong performance and excellent resource utilization across all tests.
• As expected in an online transaction processing workload like Aras Innovator 10, the database performance of SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition at scale was crucial.
• The scalability enhancements in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition enabled Aras Innovator 10 to scale to 1,000,000 named users and 250,000 concurrent users with exceptionally fast and consistent performance.
• Average response times were excellent across the different user loads from 125,000 to 250,000 concurrent users.
• During testing average CPU utilization was consistently below 10 percent and was never higher than 20 percent.
• Benchmark testing results validate that Aras Innovator 10 running on SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition scales nearly linearly with hardware upgrades and is architected for very high numbers of concurrent users.
• The performance of Aras Innovator 10 is not constrained by its architecture. The design puts the burden of work on the hardware, so it can be scaled-up and scaled-out with server hardware.

“The world’s largest manufacturers are telling us that they need better PLM performance than they have been able to obtain from the other PLM systems,” said Peter Schroer, President of Aras. “With these tests we’ve publicly demonstrated a new high water mark in PLM scalability that the legacy software architectures have never been able to achieve.”