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by arjunnarayan 3001 days ago
I don't think it's true to claim that TPC-C is obsolete and subsumed by TPC-E. They are both different OLTP benchmarks, with different characteristics. TPC-C is more write heavy, TPC-E is far more read heavy. It's true that TPC-E is newer, but doesn't deprecate TPC-C (the way TPC-A, for instance, is now deprecated).

We chose TPC-C because it's far more understood than TPC-E in 2018. We wanted to provide understandable benchmarks that can be put into context with other databases. Other databases report TPC-C numbers, so we choose to do so as well.
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tyingq 3001 days ago
It seems not used much anymore. Follow that link (http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results.asp?print=false...) and sort by either score, or price performance. The vast majority of top results are a decade old or more. I couldnt find anything less than 5 years old without going to second/third pages.

And the top results are usually crazy high number of cores clusters. The Sun example was over 1700 cores.

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makmanalp 3001 days ago
The problem is that I think it costs money and red tape to submit results and vendors run their own, and you kinda have to take their word on it or reproduce them yourself.
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tyingq 3001 days ago
That makes sense. Probably TPC-C died after Oracle basically killed off Sybase and Informix. No more well funded competition to keep up the pace. And no multitude of RISC vendors trying to fend off Linux/X86.

The open source databases didn't play that game, so TPC-C became irrelevant.

Too bad there isn't a good way to directly compare the healthy survivors.

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