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The Benchmark Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems (2nd Ed.) Edited by Jim Gray. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1993. 592 pp. (2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260, San Mateo, CA 94403).
This handbook is a compendium of popular computer system performance j and price/performance metrics, mostly for database and transaction processing systems. These are called "domain specific" benchmarks, designed to quantify systems in a specific application domain. The benchmarks consist of a synthetic workload that chatacterize typical applications in that problem domain. The performance of these benchmark workloads then provides a rough estimate of the relative performance of each system on that problem domain. This handbook contains eight domain-specific benchmarks for database and transaction processing systems (the three TPC benchmarks in the following lists are counted as one):
* Online Transaction Processing, including a LAN or WAN network: TPC]-A Online Transaction Processing...