Re: New IBM Nonsense

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:24:03 -0800
Message-ID: <41f415e7_1@127.0.0.1>

Mark Townsend wrote:

> thu.nnguyen_at_gmail.com wrote:
>

>>
>>
>> There is a TPC-C result running on identical Power5 hardware (8 way p5
>> 570).  You can check it out at www.tpc.org. It shows DB2 result is
>> ~430k and Oracle is at ~370k tansactions /minute.  DB2 significantly
>> faster.
>>

>
>
> You may want to look at the differences in the disk environment between
> the two 'apples to apples' configurations. The IBM result used at least
> 20% more spindles than the Oracle result. It also had at least 30% more
> clients driving the backend. This may explain why the IBM result was 15%
> faster.

Methinks IBM has a self-inflicted gunshot wound on this one.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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