TPC-C has merit - Funny Sun Agrees Again
There is no doubt in my mind the M9000 wouldn't stand a chance it barely beat the 595 on the light weight SAP SD 2-tier benchmark and core for core it wasn't even close. The thing that impresses me about TPC-C to this day, even thought the benchmark is basic in nature, is the sheer amount of disk attached to the servers to drive the I/O requirements for these big numbers. Just look at the disk behind the 595 - lots of it. Unlike many benchmarks, this one requires reads *and* writes and there is lots of changed data making its way back to the gaggles of disk spindles.
Anyone see JAVA's 4Q results? They need all the good news they can get over at Oracle. Sun's new sugar daddy must feel like dumping its new girlfriend's hardware division...
Whatever tpmC Niagara can do with RAC on TPC-C, I'd bet an x86 cluster or a POWER6 cluster could meet or exceed at a much lower price point.
Maybe Oracle will also announce they are going to price per socket to help?
Its still ironic that after all the TPC-C bashing Sun has done over the last decade they'd publish this result with Oracle.
With brutal memory bandwidth per core I don't think we'll see Niagara do TPC-H any time soon...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
