database performance: Java Linux Databases: SQL Anywhere
Sybase SQL Anywhere version 10
Kernels and Architecture
The choice of kernel does not make much of a difference, neither does the choice of JDK (only SUN's 1.6 is shown below).
The i686 architecture does just as well as x86_64:
But with more threads, the IBM JDK starts to lag behind, whilst all the other combinations remain very close: