A Measure of Transaction Processing 20 Years Later
Databases
2007-05-23 v1 Performance
Abstract
This provides a retrospective of the paper "A Measure of Transaction Processing" published in 1985. It shows that transaction processing peak performance and price-peformance have improved about 100,000x respectively and that sort/sequential performance has approximately doubled each year (so a million fold improvement) even though processor performance plateaued in 1995.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0701162,
title = {A Measure of Transaction Processing 20 Years Later},
author = {Jim Gray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0701162},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
This article appeared in the IEEE Data Engineering, Fall 2005