Re: Benchmarks

Posted in 1993

Guenther Moschen — Tue, 5 Oct 93 10:48:21 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <1993Oct1.113125.13914@xact.demon.co.uk> ptm@xact.demon.co.uk (Paul Thomas Mahoney) writes: >We are looking for a faster system. Vendors "publish" "spec mark" >figures for their machines: eg SPARC, IBM RS/600, DEC-Alpha etc... > >Unfortunately our current system is a 50MHz 486 system running SCO. What >we need to do is obtain the benchmark software to compile and run on >our system so we can compare the results against the vendors published >figures. > >Anyone know where I can pickup the benchmarking software for testing >RDBMS performance? > nowhere, 'cause the RDBMS benchmarks (TPC-A,TPC-B,TPC-C,TPC-D,TPC-E) are not public. But you can get all published results from: TPC (Transaction Processing Council Shanley Public Relations 777 N.First Street, Suite 600 San Jose, CA 95112-6311, USA Phone-# (408) 295-8894 Fax-# (408) 295-2613 email: shanley@cup.portal.com hope that helps. -- *----------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Guenther Moschen | INTERNET: Guenther.Moschen@mch.sni.de * * UNIX Consultant | PHONE : 089/63642171 * * c/o | A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, *