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

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.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Colin James III, Principal Scientist cjames_at_cec-services.com CEC Services, 2080 Kipling St, Lakewood, CO 80215-1502 USA Voice: 303.231.9437; Facsimile: .231.9438; Data: .231.9434 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Received on Wed Jan 03 1996 - 00:00:00 CET