Transaction Processing Performance Council

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Formation	1988
Type	Not-for-profit
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA
Membership	Hardware and software vendors, market researchers, educational institutions, consultants
Website	www.tpc.org

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), founded in 1988, is a non-profit organization founded to define benchmarks for transaction processing and databases, and to publish objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry.^[1] TPC benchmarks are used in evaluating the performance of computer systems, and TPC publishes the results.

Conference Series

In 2009 the TPC initiated an International Technology Conference Series on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC), a forum for industry experts and researchers to discuss and develop techniques for evaluation, measurement and characterization of modern application systems. The conference series was founded in 2009 by Raghunath Nambiar of Cisco and Meikel Poess in 2009.

TPCTC 2009, in conjunction with VLDB 2009 on August 24, 2009 in Lyon, France.^[2]^[3]^[4]
TPCTC 2010, in conjunction with VLDB 2010 on September 17, 2010 in Singapore.^[5]^[6]
TPCTC 2011, in conjunction with VLDB 2011 on August 29, 2011 in Seattle, Washington.^[7]
TPCTC 2012, in conjunction with VLDB 2012 on August 27, 2012 in Istanbul,Turkey.^[8]
TPCTC 2013, in conjunction with VLDB 2013 on August 26, 2013 in Trento, Italy.^[9]
TPCTC 2014, in conjunction with VLDB 2014 on September 5, 2014 in Hangzhou, China.^[10]
TPCTC 2015, in conjunction with VLDB 2015 on August 31, 2015 in Kohala Coast, Hawaii.^[11]
TPCTC 2016, in conjunction with VLDB 2016 on September 5, 2016 in New Delhi, India.^[12]

Standards

TPC-C - On-line transaction processing (since 1992)^[13]^[14]
TPC-H - Ad-hoc decision support system (since 1999)
TPC-E - Complex on-line transaction processing (since 2006)
TPC-DS - Complex decisions support system (since 2011)^[15]
TPC-DI - Data integration (since 2013)
TPCx-HS - Industry's first standard for benchmarking Big Data (Hadoop) systems (since 2014)^[16]

Obsolete benchmarks

TPC-A - Measures performance in update-intensive database environments typical in on-line transaction processing applications. (Obsolete as of June 6, 1995)
TPC-App - An application server and web services benchmark.
TPC-B - Measures throughput in terms of how many transactions per second a system can perform. (Obsolete as of June 6, 1995)
TPC-D - Represents a broad range of decision support applications that require complex, long running queries against large complex data structures. (Obsolete as of April 6, 1999)
TPC-R - A business reporting, decision support benchmark. (Obsolete as of January 1, 2005)
TPC-W - A transactional web e-Commerce benchmark. (Obsolete as of April 28, 2005)

References

^ Shanley, Kim (February 1998). "Origins of the TPC and the first 10 years". TPC. Archived from the original on 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
^ "Transaction Processing Performance Council Announces Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking". Reuters. April 8, 2009. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
^ "First TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2009)". Transaction Processing Performance Council. Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
^ Nambiar, Raghunath; Poess, Meikel, eds. (2009). "Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking". SpringerLink. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-07-19.
^ "Transaction Processing Performance Council Announces Second Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking". Enhanced Online News. April 27, 2010. Archived from the original on July 28, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
^ "Second TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2010)". Transaction Processing Performance Council. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
^ "Third TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2011)". Transaction Processing Performance Council. Archived from the original on January 15, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
^ "Fourth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2012)". Transaction Processing Performance Council. Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
^ "Fifth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2013)". Transaction Processing Performance Council. Archived from the original on January 7, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
^ "Sixth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2014)". Transaction Processing Performance Council. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
^ "Sixth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2014)". Transaction Processing Performance Council. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
^ "Sixth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2014)". Transaction Processing Performance Council. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
^ Nambiar, Raghunath; Poess, Meikel (2011). Performance evaluation, measurement and characterization of complex systems: second TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2010, Singapore, September 13-17, 2010, Revised selected papers. Lecture notes in computer science. TPC Technology Conference. Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-18206-8.
^ Gray, Jim, ed. (1994). The Benchmark handbook: for database and transaction processing systems. The Morgan Kaufman series in data management systems (2. ed., 2. [print.] ed.). San Francisco, Calif: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1-55860-292-2.
^ Nambiar, Raghunath Othayoth; Poess, Meikel (September 2006). "The Making of TPC-DS". VLDB '06: Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Very large data bases. pp. 1049–1058.
^ Nambiar, Raghunath; Poess, Meikel; Dey, Akon; Cao, Paul; Magdon-Ismail, Tariq; Ren, Da Qi; Bond, Andrew (2015). "Introducing TPCx-HS: The First Industry Standard for Benchmarking Big Data Systems". In Nambiar, Raghunath; Poess, Meikel (eds.). Performance Characterization and Benchmarking. Traditional to Big Data. Springer. pp. 1–12. ISBN 978-3-319-15349-0.