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

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