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A "Measure of Transaction Processing" 20 Years Later (2005) [1 citations — 0 self]

by Jim Gray ,  Jim Gray
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Abstract:

This article will appear in the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin ######## Figure 1 (by Charles Levine from [2]): Price/performance trend lines for TPC-A and TPC-C. The 15-year trend lines track Moore's Law (100x per 10 years.) 1 10 100 1000 10000 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 '2000 '2002 '2004 $/tx TPC-C TPC price/perf trend 1990-2005: improved 58% per year prices have declined 37%/y TPC-C price/perf trend TPC-A price/perf trend 37% per year 1E+0 1E+3 1E+6 1E+9 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Speed: SortedRecords/Sec Performance/Price: GB Sorted/$ Sort 68% /y performance/price improvement Figure 2: Sort speed doubled every year for the from 1985 to 2000; but it only improved 2.4x since then (a 20%/y improvement). Price-performance has steadily improved at 68%/y

Citations

9 A Measure of Transaction Processing – Anon - 1985
1 Thousands of DebitCredit Transactions per Second – Gray, Levine
1 Sorting on a Cluster Attached to a – Wyllie