Comments on: The TPC-H benchmark is a blight upon the industry

By: More on TPC-H comparisons | Pizza And Code

More on TPC-H comparisons | Pizza And Code — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:27:43 +0000

[...] the numbers that Curt and I have been referring to in our posts. Curt’s original post was, my post [...]

By: Is TPC-H really a blight upon the industry? | Pizza And Code

Is TPC-H really a blight upon the industry? | Pizza And Code — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:27:22 +0000

[...] (typeof(addthis_share) == "undefined"){ addthis_share = [];}On June 22, Curt Monash posted an interesting entry on his blog about TPC-H in the wake of an announcement by ParAccel. On the same day, Merv Adrian posted another [...]

By: Exadata TPC Benchmarks | The Pythian Blog

Exadata TPC Benchmarks | The Pythian Blog — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:37:29 +0000

[...] fastest 1,000GB TPC-H result at the time, but has since been overtaken by a ParAccel result that makes a mockery of the benchmark according to Curt Monash by running almost entirely in [...]

By: Links and observations | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Links and observations | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:40:10 +0000

[...] replaced their CEO, replaced their marketing chief, and stopped the worst of the marketing nonsense I used to complain about. ParAccel has some interesting plans for ParAccel 3.0 which are, [...]

By: Tom Williams

Tom Williams — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:50:41 +0000

Does anyone know what file system ParAccel uses. Is ti b-tree. They are claiming linear scalability. Are they stating that when there is enough memory to run hash joins in RAM? What happens when high concurrency and not enough memory for hash join. Anyone know?

By: VectorWise, Ingres, and MonetDB | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:14:36 +0000

[...] achieve speed. That said, VectorWise claims 3-4X compression on TPC-H data, which is no worse than what ParAccel reported, and enjoys higher compression rates on other kinds of [...]

By: ParAccel and their puzzling TPC-H results | Bookmarks

ParAccel and their puzzling TPC-H results | Bookmarks — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:46:35 +0000

[...] it. First, there was Merv Adrian’s positive post on the subject, and then there was Curt Monash’s negative post. Monash’s negativity stemmed largely from the seemingly unrealistic configuration of having nearly [...]

By: Daniel Abadi has a theory about ParAccel | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:46:21 +0000

[...] most of the mentions were by competitors and/or Vertica-affiliated academics, and since my own unflattering ParAccel-related comments were rather fresh at the [...]

By: Historical significance of TPC benchmarks | Software Memories

Historical significance of TPC benchmarks | Software Memories — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:07:52 +0000

[...] case you missed it, I’ve had a couple of recent conversations about the TPC-H benchmark. Some people suggest that, while almost untethered from real-world computing, TPC-Hs [...]

By: The TPC-H schema | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

The TPC-H schema | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:59:26 +0000

[...] anybody recommend in real life running the TPC-H schema for that data? (I.e., fully normalized, no materialized views.) If so — why???? [...]