Re: Sybase 11 TPCC on DEC (your comments please)

The TPC specification is on the Transaction Processing Council WEB site (http://www.tpc.org/bench.descrip.html) Have a look

In article <4cf1c6$io_at_nova.dimensional.com>, cjames_at_melchizedek.cec-services.com wrote:

> cjames_at_melchizedek.cec-services.com (The Right Reverend Colin James
> III) posted with deletions:
>
>
> | If a 300 MHz Alpha is linearly equivalent to a 133 MHz Pentium (which
> | it may not be), then 300/133 or about 2.25 * 3360 tpm = 7580 tpm which
> | is about 45% less than the Sybase mark. (It should be an order of
> | magnitude less (10-times less or 1000% less), because my test is in a
> | high-order language BASIC, not an intermediate-order language C.)
> |
> | The Sybase results do not impress this writer.
>
> Correction: I did not bother to read far enough into the puff-piece
> press release to see that the DEC 8400 is not a mere $40K box. It has
> 10-processors and 6GB of RAM, which means the DEC probably jammed the
> entire datbase into memory, ie, no physical disk I/O.
>
> By contrast, my linear extrapolation of 7580 tpm should be scaled up
> by 10 to 75,800 tpm which would be about 7-times _faster_, at least,
> than Sybase.
>
> Even less impressed with Sybase now.
>
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Received on Thu Jan 04 1996 - 00:00:00 CET