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Re: Db2, Oracle, SQL Server

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: 9 Feb 2005 22:27:16 -0800
Message-ID: <1108016836.766692.133200@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>


Mark A wrote:
> The claim (and subsequent defense of that claim) that DB2 does not
scale on
> OLTP is absurd. DB2 total throughput measured as transactions per
minute
> (TPM) on TPC-C is 2.5 times more than the fastest Oracle TPC
benchmark
> published using RAC and same number of processors (64).

OLTP != TPC-C
qed

> The DB2 cost per TPM
> is cheaper than the Oracle benchmark cost per TPM.
> http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp

WTF has that got to do with scalability?

> So Daniel Morgan cries ABSURD at the TPC,

Absurd is your logic. Received on Thu Feb 10 2005 - 00:27:16 CST

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