All of these are written in the C language. It measures the ability of the system to give a single user the best possible response time by harnessing all available resources. A number of query users is chosen, each of which must execute the full set of 17 queries in a different order. The price is the five year cost of ownership for the tested configuration and includes maintenance and software support. Larger values indicate better performance.
Larger values indicate better performance.
Larger values indicate better performance. Results shown are in minutes. Lower numbers indicate better performance. Unless otherwise indicated for a system, the SPEC, TPC, and Linpack benchmarks were conducted using AIX v 4.2.1. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors.