Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **
In article <landeckDHquro.7Dy@netcom.com>, landeck@netcom.com (Albert Landeck) 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. Does this mean that you benchmarked the same TPC benchmark ? If this is the case then why not have it audited (?) - you do not need DEC to do that for you. To my knowledge DEC supply performance assistance and hardware - if you have out performed the Oracle benchmark then you already have the performance tuning expertise and hardware, so why not perform an audited benchmark that you could publish ? If that is not the case then you are comparing apples to virtual oranges. > > I would urge people to compare like numbers (when available of course), I would urge people to compare *real* audited numbers, not biased *hearsay* ! > I think you will all be quite surprised at the strength of the > Sybase performance numbers. I'm surprised quite often - looking forward to being surprised again. > > 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