These are very successful in commercial server market for database and related applications |
E10000 acquired from Cray via SGI is also called Starfire |
TPCD Benchmarks 1000Gbyte(Terabyte) November 1998 |
These measure typical large scale database queries |
System Database Power 5 Year Total $/perf |
Metric System Cost ($/QphD) |
(QppD) |
Sun Starfire (SMP) Oracle 27,024.6 $9,660.193 $776 |
IBM RS/6000 (MPP) DB2 19,137.5 $11,380,178 $797 |
Sun 4x6000 (Clus) Informix 12,931.9 $11,766,932 $1,353 |
NCR 5150 (MPP) Teradata 12,149.2 $14,495,886 $2,103 |