Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/01/tpc_ds_big
_data_benchmark/  New standard test of Big Data bang per system
buck rolls out  A sim so good you could use it instead of Oracle
or SAP?  By Timothy Prickett Morgan  Posted in Data Warehousing,
1st May 2012 21:31 GMT  There's a new big data benchmark in
town: TPC-DS.  The Transaction Processing Performance Council
still doesn't know how to do its own abbreviation after 24 years
of existence, but it does know a thing or two about getting IT
hardware and software vendors together and hammering out
benchmark tests and pricing metrics to help server, storage,
database, and middleware buyers try to figure out what they
might want to buy and what kind of value they might expect from
what they buy.  The TPC was founded in 1988 following an uproar
in the server racket after IBM ran its own RAMP-C COBOL
benchmark test on its AS/400 and System/38 minicomputers,
pitting them against a bunch of Hewlett-Packard HP 3000s and
Digital Equipment VAXes and showing