Microsoft, NEC, Intel better than Oracle, IBM
ENT News | at | by Mike
Microsoft is finally beating Oracle and competing with Unix in the scale-up benchmarking game. NEC, Intel and Microsoft published a new benchmark on the bellwether TPC-C test for database transaction processing scalability late last week. The number two result overall on the TPC-C puts Microsoft's SQL Server and Windows Server 2003 above all Oracle database results. It is the first time that Microsoft has produced a non-clustered database system on the TPC-C that came anywhere near the top results of current Unix systems.