[tyingq]

http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=11...

Yeah, but 1700 cores worth. That's still a lot of $300 boxes. Like qty 53 Sparc T3-2's for example. Which seem to be $1200 to $2k on eBay. And unsupported, end of life, etc.

I'd compare CockroachDB's number to some more recent result with a similar number of cores. (If you can find one)

[guipsp]

Minor correction: They used 54 SPARC T3-2. You can see exactly which components they used in http://c970058.r58.cf2.rackcdn.com/fdr/tpcc/Oracle_SPARC_Sup...

[tyingq]

Not feeling too bad about my back of the napkin guess being off by one server at 53 vs 54. :)

[qaq]

I meant dell boxes Sparc based boxes retain some value