A Bunch of Money on AWS and Some Benchmark Results

Re:A Bunch of Money on AWS and Some Benchmark Results by knz42 on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @09:34PM (#19915598)

You should read up on why this think time exists. It has nothing to do with "emulating slow clients" and everything to do with not claiming "I have a fast database" by running gazillion txn/sec on just 1MB of data in RAM.

TPC-C requires that you increase the amount of "live data" if you want to display/advertise more performance. That's the benchmark's rule.

If you want to benchmark something else, that's fine, but then

1) don't call it "TPC-C" 2) don't compare with databases that play by the rules.

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Re:A Bunch of Money on AWS and Some Benchmark Results by dkhenry on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:09PM (#19915802)

I know why it exists, and my point is they are not trying to show a gazillion txn/sec on 1MB of data. You are looking at a dataset that is several TB's. They have far surpassed the point where a vendor is trying to cheat by putting all the data in L1 cache and claiming to be fast.

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