A leader should behave like a leader. We're proud to be joined by our friends at Informix in making a little history. Recent advancements in DBMS technologies, which allow certain TPC-D calculations to be precomputed, stored and transparently accessed during the course of testing, were the catalyst for change. With the measuring stick mastered, the buying public was left without a standardized way to evaluate and compare systems' real-world DSS performance.
Analysts share a similar viewpoint.
We might caution, however, that systems should not be judged solely on the basis of raw performance. Enterprise management and availability are equally important when evaluating systems. Sun is one vendor that strives to achieve balance between all three. Specifically, Sun tested in the 100GB TPC-H class, simulating random query generation from a group of five concurrent users. There were 592GB of storage used in total for this benchmark.