Re: TPC-C Real Story
Sorry Thomas Kyte. The numbers Oracle released for their TPC/C performance where for ver. 7.3. This is a beta release that will be available at the end of 95 according to informiation from Oracle. And according to press releases from Oracle about a month before these TPC/C benchmarks came out the beta 7.3 is more than double the speed of the current ver. 7.2. Ignoring any problems Oracle might have with running TPC/C on 7.2 we should divide their numbers by 2 to get something that might have been comparable to the others: Database: tpmC $/tpmC Informix OnLine 7.10... 3312 $587 DB2 for AIX............ 3319 $349 Oracle ver. 7.2........ 2684 $1072 These are all on different machines and one should of course be *very* carefull in comparing them to say the least. (I have left out the Sybase numbers because the machine configuration Oracle refered to in their press release where simply too different from the others - 4 versus 10 or more CPU's.) If any machine goes what will happen with the current beta, soon to be released ver. 8 from Informix on an IBM SP2 or the new machines from HP? As I see it Oracle and Informix are the main competitors out there if you need to install very large databases. Why Oracle is trying best as they can to damage their image beats me. Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM-data, Dalsbergstien 7, N-0170 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company > Mark Sigler <MSigler@Informix.Com> writes: > >Thomas Kyte <tkyte@us.oracle.com> wrote: > > > >Well if the TPC-C benchmark is THE accurate, real world benchmark > >demonstrating scalability, then the speed up and scale up with Informix > >would be somewhere between the original Sybase system and the > >implementation under Oracle! > >Right about smack in the middle as a matter of fact. > > > >Thomas Kyte > >tkyte@us.oracle.com > >Oracle Government > > > > Thomas, > > I'm glad to see that Oracle has decided to validate the use of > industry-standard benchmarks once again after the sour grapes > from the embarassment of getting a hand slapped for creating > such a blatant "benchmark special". > > Interesting that you used the v7.3 catch-up product that isn't > shipping yet. Can't beat us with your current product? > I was disappointed that you didn't benchmark a configuration > that was the same as one of the 34 TPC-C results that we've > published. When we benchmark a HP T-500 12-CPU configuration, > then we'll have an "apples to apples" comparison. > > No doubt it's an impressive number. > Enjoy it while it lasts!