Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Oct 2 19:36:02 CDT 2005
Hi All: The latest TPC-C costs for the new MS SQL 2003 / Dell combo of $0.99 (compared with an Oracle 8i / Compaq combo results that top $52.xx): http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results.asp?print=false&orderby=pricepe rf&sortby=asc . It seems that M$ is definitely competing on price points to grab a larger market share. It is very difficult to gleam any real results from the 'tpc.org' site as the performance levels of various databases is so reliant on the hardware on which they are running. It would be nice if there was a site which had two of three set pieces of hardware, installed with a dozen of the major DBs (not 3 and sometimes 4) and ran each under the same load conditions with the same data sets... then maybe some realistic performance figures could be gathered. Does anyone know a site where there are 'real' performance figures? Jim