Re: DB2 Crushes Oracle RAC on TPC-C benchmark

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:36:17 -0800
Message-ID: <1106681624.536204@yasure>

Mark A wrote:

>>>"DB2 UDB V8.2, eServer p595, and TotalStorage FASt900 published an

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> amazing
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>>>TPC-C result of 3,210,540 tpmC at a price/performance of $5.19/tpmC,
>>>demonstrating 2.7x better performance than Oracle RAC. Never before has

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> any
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>>>database vendor taken such a decisive leadership position in this

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> benchmark.
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>>>In fact, this new DB2 result leads the previous record by a margin wider
>>>than the top results of Oracle and Microsoft combined!"
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>>>taken from:
>>>http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/benchmarks/111704.html
>>>
>>>
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>>I thought this one was chewed to death...
>>are you planning to rival Mr. Omlet?
>>Any unexplained fires in your neighborhood, gang wars?
>>
>>-- 
>>Serge Rielau
>>DB2 SQL Compiler Development
>>IBM Toronto Lab

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> Sorry, I didn't know this was posted before on this newsgroup.
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> No fires or gang wars that I know of.

And it should be noted that had it not been posted in c.d.o none of this would ever have happened. So a bit of courtesy extended will most certainly be reciprocated.

Thank you.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

Received on Tue Jan 25 2005 - 13:36:17 CST