Benchmarking
If you're using a high-volume, production-oriented relational database management system, you've probably heard vendors making claims about the number of transactions per second their systems deliver. The numbers they bandy about are based on the results of benchmarks or tests that measure the performance of a system in a controlled environment using a standard methodology.
Interpreting and analyzing claims about performance benchmarks are notoriously difficult. Benchmarking is technically complex, and the results announced by vendors inevitably reflect the tendency of any interested party to show his or her product at its best. The technical details of benchmark evaluation are the province of database experts and are beyond the ...
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