Oracle Database Cloud (DBaaS) Performance Consistency - Part 5

This is the fifth part of this installment, and before coming to comparisons to other cloud providers, in this part I show the results of the read-only test that I've already described in part three of this series, but repeated at a later point in time. The test setup was identical and can be checked in the mentioned previous part.

The reason for running the test again was the fact that I was informed during the first test run that the zone that my Oracle Cloud domain was assigned to was temporarily overloaded, which I also noticed since I wasn't able to create new services for some time.

Hence I decided to repeat the tests after it was confirmed that the issue got resolved.

So here is a comparison of the second test run results compared to the first test run - the corresponding results for the dedicated physical host can be found in part three.

Overall consistency second run:

Overall consistency first run:

Again the graph is supposed to show how many of the runs deviated how much from the overall median runtime. The second run shows a much improved overall consistency much closer to that of the dedicated physical host, although a few outliers are more extreme than in the first run,

The same data on per day basis, second run:

First run:

Except for the first two days the second run shows a pretty consistent behaviour per day, and it becomes obvious that it's the second day of the second run that is responsible for the extreme outliers and also the significant inconsistency in the area between 8 and 12 percent deviation.

Finally the individual thread performance, second run:

First run:

The individual thread performance graph confirms the much improved consistency compared to the first run.