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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Unix machines for large databases
Message-ID: <562@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 6 May 88 00:55:31 GMT
References: <428@cmx.npac.syr.edu> <2050@rtech.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <2050@rtech.UUCP>, markd@rtech.UUCP (Mark P. Diamond) writes:
> ...................... In a recent project with Relational
> Technology a sixteen processor Symmetry achieved 104 Transactions
> per second running the Debit Credit Benchmark (TP1) on
> a fully sized 1.1G Byte database, at a price performance ratio
> at about 1/8 that of Tandem  (all of this was verfied by
> the independent Codd & Date consulting group). ................
> 
> PS  If anyone would like a full write up of this project send me
> your postal address.

  I do not doubt the benchmark and I would appreciate a copy of the write-up.
  But there has been a working relationship of one sort or another between
  the C&D group and RTI for a long time.  So "independent" is overstating 
 things a bit......