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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46071)	6/6/2000 8:04:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Perhaps even more to the point, who decided clustered TPC-C benchmarks were directly comparable to single-image?

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46071)	6/6/2000 8:13:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Cheryl - re: Who decided that TPC-C benchmarks are an indicator of scalability? Well, back when they had the best numbers, that claim was made by SUNW and Oracle. Here's a few references going back a couple of years - 10 October 1997: Oracle8 and Sun Ultra Enterprise 6000 Cluster Benchmark Set New World Record of 51,871.62 tpmC at $134.46 per tpmC uk.oracle.com "These benchmark results demonstrate the scalability of Oracle8 in all dimensions-from the workgroup to the enterprise" and according to John Shoemaker, Vice President of Server and Storage Technology at Sun Microsystems "These results once again prove that Oracle on Sun can deliver solutions that scale across the enterprise..." Sun told the same story on October 27, 1999 - "Sun Breaks All Existing TPC-C Benchmarks" Now that Sun is at half of the performance of the leaders on this benchmark, the benchmark itself means nothing and shows nothing about scalability... In reality, the TPC-C has some components which require good scalability, but because the data and processing can be partitioned, it is less important to have a single machine which scales, and more important to have good clustering technology and a partitionable database. The TPC council will soon be shifting to benchmarks which more clearly isolate the different types of performance of interest to enterprise customers. Still, it is kind of humorous to see how the value of the benchmark shifts depending on who is winning.