Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **

I think the time limit may soon be up. First of all I can't believe that DEC would do something so foolish in the first place, but that they would allow any time limit more than a month or so would be incredibly stupid. Albert Landeck (landeck@netcom.com) wrote: : OK, first of all it is important to know that I am a Sybase employee, : so take everything I say with a grain of salt... :-) : These are truly impressive numbers, but as it has been mentioned by : other posters these are like comparing apples to oranges. The : unfortunate thing is, it seems that when DEC assisted Oracle : in their performance evaluation, they also agreed to only : benchmark Oracle and no competators, for a given time (I wish I : knew what that time limit was). : What this means is that for the time being, audited benchmark : results for Sybase on AlphaServer 8400 will be unavailable. : Same goes for Informix and Ingres :-( : I have been told by some of the benchmarking people that : we actually beat the Oracle performance, but that is : third hand and shouldn't be relied upon. : I would urge people to compare like numbers (when available of course), : I think you will all be quite surprised at the strength of the : Sybase performance numbers. : In article <4727g0$4pq@terminus.intermind.net>, : Wow! That's fastttttttt <an350133@anon.penet.fi> wrote: : > REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ via First! -- Today, Oracle : >Corp. announced a record-breaking TPC-C open systems benchmark, 9414 tpmC, : >surpassing the existing performance record, also held by the Oracle7 database. : > : > : >Oracle7's new record is more than two times faster than Sybase's best ever : >performance and nearly three times faster than Informix's best result. : > : >Remarkably, Oracle delivered twice the performance of Sybase's upcoming System : >11, but Oracle used only half the number of processors used by Sybase. : > : [snip] : > Oracle's result of 9414 tpmC at $316 per tpmC on an 8-processor Digital : >AlphaServer 8400 compares with the Sybase System 11 result of 4544 tpmC at : >$396 per tpmC recorded on a 16-processor SUN SPARCcenter 2000E and the : >Informix result of 3524 tpmC at $495 per tpmC, recorded on a 20-processor : >Sun SPARCcenter 2000E. In addition, Oracle's price/performance of $316 per : >tpmC is superior to that offered on any high-performance system, e.g. : >systems delivering more than 2,500 tpmC. : > : Disclaimer: My views do not reflect the views of my employer. : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Albert Landeck The difference between theory and practice : Sr. Software Engineer is greater in practice than in theory. : landeck@sybase.com : landeck@netcom.com