Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!jvm From: jvm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jack McClurg) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks Subject: Re: TPC-B - is this really progress? Message-ID: <21720003@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> Date: 2 Apr 91 19:26:09 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA Lines: 15 > / hpfcso:comp.benchmarks / jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) / 7:56 pm Apr 1, 1991 / > Yes, but what does TPC-B measure? What useful thing, that is? > > If I'm wrong on this point, tell me why. Otherwise, tell me why TPC is > promoting an OLTP benchmark that does not reflect anything resembling > the reality of OLTP computing. > ---------- I think that TPC-B is intended to measure a batch, nighttime processing workload roughly equivalent to TPC-A. This would seem to be a reasonable workload, but it should be measured on exactly the same configuration used to generate the TPC-A results. Instead what we have seen are some results for TPC-B and not TPC-A. Jack McClurg