NCR Teradata`s superior performance was confirmed at the Data Warehouse Challenge in May 1998, when it finished the benchmark with flying colours, running a record-setting TPC-D at 300GB and then executing 12 streams of surprise ad/hoc complex queries as required. A month later, on Friday, 19 June 1998, NCR published the first-ever TPC-D benchmark at 3 TeraBytes, breaking industry records for high volume decision support benchmarking.
The Challenge
DataChallenge Inc. is a consortium of recognized experts in the field of data warehousing. The Challenge was "issued" in the fall of 1997 to every major database vendor in the industry, including NCR, IBM, Oracle, Red Brick, Informix and Sybase. The primary objective of The Challenge is to give customers and users a better understanding of a database`s ability to meet the demands of today`s data warehouse environments.
This was achieved by executing a series of surprise queries immediately after the execution of an industry standard TPC-D benchmark at either 100GB or 300GB. In addition, The Challenge requires several query "streams" to be executed simultaneously, thereby simulating multiple concurrent users.
IBM, the only other vendor that was willing to accept the challenge, volunteered at the lower volume point of 100GB to avoid a head-to-head competition with Teradata.
The results were announced at the Data Warehouse Institute Conference in Chicago.
TPC-D benchmark at 3 TeraBytes
NCR/Teradata has achieved a feat unreachable by any other platform today. Competitors who have managed to produce a 1 TB TPC-D benchmark have done so only by totally exhausting themselves, even on their "futures" platforms. Teradata is nowhere near exhaustion with this 3 TB benchmark. Both the hardware platform and the Teradata database have been proven very capable of taking on greater and larger challenges.
Mr Nico Prinsloo, Principal Consultant of the Computer Solutions Group at National Data Systems, says that the good news for South African customers is that the NCR/Teradata platform that produced this 3 TB benchmark is available today. It demonstrates a low disk storage ratio and the same simple two-page database setup representative of Teradata systems around the world.
Below is a table to illustrate how NCR Teradata beats every other database in the industry for raw query performance with proven scalability, allowing the base to grow from under 10GB to over 100 TB. NCR Teradata flattens the benchmarks and raises the bar by which all other data warehouse databases are measured.
TPC-D Power Comparison
Teradata versus the Next Best Database
QppD at 1 TB
QppD at 300 GB
QppD at 100 GB
100GB, 300 GB and 1 TB results based on actual TPC-D Query Processing Power D (QppD) as of 12/10/97.
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