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San Francisco, California — March 7, 2001 — The
Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today
announced the update of its long standing TPC-C benchmark to
Version 5.0 (V5). Changes to the specification from the
Version 3.5 release revolve around pricing and runtime
modifications to better reflect today's market requirements.
It is anticipated the current body of results can be easily
upgraded to V5 by re-pricing and re-submitting existing
results.
Pricing changes include reducing maintenance support
pricing to 3 years down from 5 years, 24x7 maintenance up
from 8x5, removing terminal network pricing (hubs,
switches), and allowing pricing quotes from web pages and
print materials. Runtime changes include reducing the disk
space requirements to 60 days from 180 days, increasing the
measurement interval to 2 hours up from 20 minutes,
reporting checkpoint durations, and logging and reporting
the number of lost connections of users during the
measurement interval. The full text of the specification is
available on the TPC web site.
The first TPC-C V5 results will become available in March
2001. Older V3 results will still be accepted until April
2001, with complete phaseout and withdrawal by October 2001.
The goal of TPC benchmarks is to define a set of
functional requirements that can be run on any transaction
processing system, regardless of hardware or operating
system. It is then up to the test sponsor to submit proof
(in the form of a full disclosure report) that they have met
all the requirements. This methodology allows any vendor,
using "proprietary" or "open" systems, to implement the TPC
benchmark and guarantees to end-users that they will see an
apples-to-apples comparison. This is a dramatic departure
from most other benchmarks where test sponsors are limited
to comparing machines that run on just one operating system
or benchmarks that execute the same set of software
instructions.
TPC benchmarks also differ from other benchmarks in that
TPC benchmarks are modeled after actual production
applications and environments rather than stand-alone
computer tests which may not evaluate key performance
factors like user interface, communications, disk I/Os, data
storage, and backup and recovery.
More than 30 TPC Members Worldwide
The TPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define
transaction processing and database benchmarks and to
disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to
the industry. The TPC was established in August 1988 by
eight leading software and hardware companies, and now has
over 30 members from North America, Asia, Australia, and
Europe. The TPC members are: Acer, Adaptec, BEA Systems,
Bull, Compaq,DataReturn, debis Systemhaus, Dell Computers,
Electronic Data Systems (EDS), EMC Corporation, Fujitsu,
Harris Teeter, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, IDEAS
International, Informix, Intel, ITOM International,
Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, NCR, NEC, Network Appliance,
Oracle, Progress Software SCO, Fujitsu/Siemens, SGI, Sun
Microsystems, Sybase, Toshiba, Unisys, and Velogic.
For more information, contact:
TPC, Michael Majdalany
Voice: 415-750-8260
Fax: 415-751-4829
Email:
info@tpc.org
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