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

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???? [...]

By: Notes on columnar/TPC-H compression | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:54:34 +0000

[...] was chatting with Omer Trajman of Vertica, and he said that a 70% compression figure for ParAccel’s recent TPC-H filing sounded about right.* When I noted that seemed kind of low, Omer pointed out that TPC-H data is [...]

By: Amrith

Amrith — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:45:13 +0000

Curt,

I’ve posted a graphical comparison of the disk to data, memory to data and load time results from TPC-H at http://hypecycles.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/tpch-chart-comparisons/

Your thoughts please.

-amrith

By: More on TPC-H comparisons « Hype Cycles

More on TPC-H comparisons « Hype Cycles — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:43:10 +0000

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

By: Amrith

Amrith — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:06:34 +0000

Merv, Curt,

Great discussion. I have a slightly different take on the issue and I’ve posted it at

http://hypecycles.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/tpch-critique/

-amrith

By: Is TPC-H really a blight upon the industry? « Hype Cycles

Is TPC-H really a blight upon the industry? « Hype Cycles — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:50:27 +0000

[...] TPC-H really a blight upon the industry? By ak 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 [...]