I notice Sun no longer has the highest TPC-C benchmark. The ranking is now IBM at 57,053.80 tpmC ($147.40/tpmC, 57,000 users), followed by HP at 52,117.80 tpmC ($81.17/tpmC, 43,000 users), and then Sun (E-6000) at 51,871.62 tpmC ($134.46/tpmC, 44,000 users). I wonder if Sun will release some Starfire numbers in response.
BTW, the IBM and Sun tests both used Oracle, but the HP test was with Sybase (which apparently costs about a million dollars less than Oracle); I think that accounts for part of the price/performance difference.
JMHO. |
